Re: Where are we Headed? (was lynx-dev The Lynx TODO list )

[David Woolley]

> 
> Also there's "Dynamic HTML", whatever the heck that is.  There's an

It's essentially a marketing term, but means a combination of HTML, 
executable code (normally Java/J- or VB Script, but could be Java),
an object model which describes which attributes are available to modify
etc. and a set of attributes which, when modified, change the visual 
appearance of the page.

IE is more dynamic than NS, as it allows fragments of the HTML to be re-written
and style sheets to be changed, whereas Netscape, although it can move
"layers", tends to require the page to be explicitly reparsed for significant
changes, and doesn't allow modification to the body text at all (you can
write a complete new page, though).

Seriously dynamic pages normally have to include many browser type tests.

It's origins are essentially from the big two, although W3C now have an
object model (which is largely incompatible with that of both big two 
browsers) and have added positioning support to HTML elements, which can
be used to statically position (which can be useful for Lynx, as it can allow
a correct reading order whilst still distributing elements around the page)
but is mainly used to animate.

Although changing the default for one field in a form based on another
would probably technically be dynamic HTML, images that move around when
the page is loaded before settling in their final place would be more
likely to be undersood as such (unfortunately the image moved before it
had been rendered in the case I am thinking of!).