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Jeff Williamson
Northern Virginia Community College
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvwillj/html-dhtml/


DHTML is....not the clearest thing in the world. It's a combination of Javascript and HTML 4 features, particularly layers. (Try Webmonkey's explanation if that's not good enough) So pre-4 browsers won't read it, and 4-level browsers will implement it differently - there are inter-browser differences in layer parameters and Javascript versions and who knows what else.

So I'm underwhelmed. It still looks interesting, if only as a possibility. Here are a couple of things I've tried and a few more examples that looked good to me

Proven

This expanding menu thing seems like it would be useful somewhere.

Possible

I think this presentation on the Document Object Model is engaging.

www.webcoder.com/howto/15/

This is a script that does something folks have asked for - registers not just a mouseover but a mouse click.

dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/image1.htm

This script allows the user to press a key, such as "h," to go to a specificed URL, such as a home page. Could be helpful for newer users?

dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex5/button1.htm

Be sure to look at some other DHTML and non-DHTML behaviors on my Dreamweaver page.

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