Talk:Dynamic HTML

I noticed that this page needed a rewrite. It's still not a wonderful article, but I clarified a few points. Personally, I think it needs a section on the history of DHTML, some examples, etc. Also, what version of Mozilla would be listed as a modern web browser? - Pingveno 03:38, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Calling it "static" markup is misleading, as the whole premise of real DHTML rests on some kind of DOM. The first real DOM was in IE4, and NS4 has a twisted and sick DOM, that however usually managed to accomplish the desired effect. Any version of Mozilla (assuming post NS4) could be called modern, however only past say m9, did it achieve any kind of stability. Maybe I'll add to the article later :) SvendTofte

Tables

You can mantion of use of tables as well.

Microsoft and DHTML

I would be interested in seeing Microsoft's claim that they invented DHTML addressed in this article. Often, specific names of Microsoft employees are mentioned as the inventors. If true, these facts deserve mention in the article. I'll dive into this some other day, but would like to hear what others have to say about it, too. --Dan 22:55, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

DHTML was first introduced by Microsoft in IE 4.0, to then be followed-up by Netscape in version 4.0 of their own browser. Scott Isaacs (still with MS -- Developer of all of their technologies they have followed the trend and labeled Ajax - Live.com, MS Atlas, etc... are the work of Scott) developed the original specification, calling it Active HTML before deciding to change this to Dynamic HTML due to the problems they were having with the exploitation of ActiveX security holes -- See: [1], [2], and [3] for more info. --Xmlhacker 20:42, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Important note

innerHTML attribute should not be used. It's not a part of the standard, just a firefox extension. Needs rewriting. countryhacker 23:03, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm...I think innerHTML is now standard. In fact, I think it was IE that did it first, see this article on innerHTML for IE 4.0 (way back when) http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/properties/innerhtml.asp --Dan 00:48, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah i'm pretty sure its a de-facto standard originating from MS and copied by mozilla/netscape. Anyone care to check out konquror or safari? Plugwash 00:53, 9 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]