Have we won yet?
A blast from the past: Why DHTML Will Win, by Steve Champeon in the now-defunct New Architect magazine, June 2002. I especially like this bit here:
DHTML, you say? Tried that, hated it. It didn't work the way you had expected in [insert your favorite browser here], right? Well, it's time to take a second look. What you may think of as DHTML has advanced greatly since the early days of Web design. Back then, Microsoft and Netscape were in a pitched battle over which Document Object Model (DOM) would rule the Web: document.all or document.layers. But that has all changed. In the end, reason and the W3C have prevailed. Even Netscape, the company that created the
element, has abandoned it in favor of the standard <div>. Developers no longer have to code for two different APIs. So why the resistance to DHTML? Perhaps it's time for a new name.
It's been three years. Has DHTML won?
3 Comments:
document.getElementById and document.getElementsByTagName have been the keystones to my crossplatform happiness. RIP document.all and document.layers
And yes, I think DHTML wins, in the sense that it's carved out a nice useful supportable niche, rather than petering out into the obscurity of a few die-hard fans and an independent consortium overseer.
Not yet. It needs its own "orange book". Then it wins.
100% it won,,
develeopers, users, need features more than standards !
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