Topic awaiting preservation: what is dhtml, and javascript? (Page 1 of 1)

um, i feel kinda dumb asking, but what is this stuff? (javascript, fireworks, firefox, html, dhtml, ect.)

"once i have fought, and now i am dead, but do not worry, for you shall also be deceased"

Fireworks is something completely unrelated that someone randomly asked a question about recently. Don't worry about that one.

HTML is the coding language used to make web pages. Right click this page and select "view source," and an HTML file will appear. What you see is the language of HTML which specifies what content this page has on it and how it is laid out. (It may look complicated, but it's not that hard to learn.)

Firefox, along with Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, and others, are web browsers: the programs you use to look at web pages. They read HTML and display it as a web page. Different browsers have different quirks (and bugs) about how they display a page.

JavaScript is a scripting language which can be included on an HTML page to make the page do things dynamically. It can be used to do simple things like rollovers, or more complex things like http://maps.google.com . The usage of JavaScript to modify an HTML page is called DHTML (Dynamic HTML).


 

cool, i learned something new. i always thought that dhtml would be the usage of JavaScript AND CSS to modify an HTML page.

It's interesting to watch the insanity...ha.

DHTML is just a buzzword -> Dynamic + HTML or HTML that moves in some way.
It is not solely JavaScript + HTML or even JavaScript + CSS + HTML.

DHTML is just using Javascript to do stuff on an HTML page. CSS is generally used since it makes your life a full 20,000% easier (and, in fact, makes many things possible that aren't in straight HTML).

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I'd say HTML is the bones of the web.
DHTML along with CSS are the muscles and joints making it possible to move and style stuff.
JavaScript is the (clientside) brain which controls it all and tells the muscles where and when to move.
The browser is the world in which this "creature" lives.
Then comes the programmer who's the spirit or soul needed to make the source more than just a few lines of code...

/TwoD

DHTML is an ambiguous term at best. But I would include HTML, CSS and JS as all elements of it. Basically you are using JS to manipulate elements on a page, whether it's HTML or CSS.



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