Is DHTML the name of a standard? Or was it XHTML 1.0?
I've recently been examining some of the literature on XHTML, CSS and XML. These standards are now very mature and very usable if they are properly impemented in the browser and in authoring tools. And just as soon as I begin to understand which parts of the standard are supported in which browser and what's proprietary in each, somebody goes and changes the rules.
Microsoft appears to be more concerned with innovations that will keep people locked into their products than they are with standards. In fact, the standards are already so good that if somebody implemented them fully, people could probably be able to do 80 - 100% of what they do with browsers and web-servers without even touching an MS product.
Mozilla / Netscape, on the other hand, appear to be steadily working towards implementing as much of the standards as possible. BUT they're taking WAY TO LONG to get there.
The result is that just now there is no standards compliant browser. And in the future? Well, if you design your documents to use the full function of the standard in order to be useful and maintainable, you'll be able to use Mozilla/Netscape but not IE. But since "everybody" uses IE nobody will probably ever fully use the standards to their potential.
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Is DHTML the name of a standard? Or was it XHTML 1.0?
I've recently been examining some of the literature on XHTML, CSS and XML. These standards are now very
mature and very usable if they are properly impemented in the browser and in authoring tools. And just as soon
as I begin to understand which parts of the standard are supported in which browser and what's proprietary in
each, somebody goes and changes the rules.
Microsoft appears to be more concerned with innovations that will keep people locked into their products than
they are with standards. In fact, the standards are already so good that if somebody implemented them fully,
people could probably be able to do 80 - 100% of what they do with browsers and web-servers without even
touching an MS product.
Mozilla / Netscape, on the other hand, appear to be steadily working towards implementing as much of the
standards as possible. BUT they're taking WAY TO LONG to get there.
The result is that just now there is no standards compliant browser. And in the future? Well, if you design your
documents to use the full function of the standard in order to be useful and maintainable, you'll be able to use
Mozilla/Netscape but not IE. But since "everybody" uses IE nobody will probably ever fully use the standards to
their potential.