Dynamic HTML Reviews

Microsoft Corporation

Updated: February 2, 1998

Visit the links below to read articles about Microsoft® Dynamic HTML that have recently appeared in industry magazines. (Please note that these links point to servers that are not under Microsoft's control. See Microsoft's official statement regarding other servers.)

ActiveX vs. Java by David W. Methvin (published by Windows Magazine, January 29, 1998) -- Methvin reviews DHTML in light of demos presented at the January Web Tech·Ed conference. "In the war between ActiveX and Java for client-side applications, the surprise winner may be Dynamic HTML."

Internet Finalist: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (published by PC Magazine, Dec 16 1997) -- excerpt from the article: "IE4's implementation of dynamic HTML (DHTML) is much more complete than Communicator's. With it, Web designers can build interactive pages that can have elements scroll to their final position on each page, or allow the placement of the cursor to trigger additional information or some visual effect to appear."

Dynamic HTML: The Mystery Revealed by Nadav Savio (published in Webmonkey, October 1997) -- gives a general breakdown of DHTML, with discussion of the DOM and CSS.

IE4 vs. Communicator Dynamic HTML by Larry Seltzer (published in PC Magazine Online) -- compares Microsoft's implementation of Dynamic HTML with Netscape's.

Image Filtering with CSS by Taylor (published in Webmonkey, August 1997) -- explains how you can add special visual effects to text and avoid bandwidth issues through the use of CSS filters.

Building with DOM: How the Document Object Model allows you to describe the elements on your Web page, and why that's a good thing. by Taylor (published in Webmonkey, August 1997) -- explains the benefits of the Document Object Model and how it is supported in Internet Explorer 4.0.

What You Should Know About HTML 4.0 by Jeff Veen (published in Webmonkey, August 1997) -- provides an overview of the HTML 4.0 spec released by the W3C.

Making Stuff Fly with Dynamic HTML by Nadav Savio (published in Webmonkey, August 1997) -- talks about the HotWired team's experiences writing Dynamic HTML for their own Web site.

Dynamic HTML -- A Split Personality by Thomas C. Powell (NetGuide, August 1, 1997) -- describes and compares Microsoft's and Netscape's implementations of Dynamic HTML.

Making Sense of the Latest HTML by Lisa Rein (NetscapeWorld, June 26, 1997) -- explains why CSS-P offers a better solution for absolute positioning than the <LAYER> tag.

CSS: Microsoft's Sense of Style by Dale Dougherty (Web Review, May 30, 1997) -- includes an interview with Microsoft CSS expert Chris Wilson about cascading style sheets and how they're integrated into the Dynamic HTML model.

New Document Object Model is Basis for Microsoft DHTML by Nate Zelnick (reprinted from Web Week, Volume 3, Issue 13, May 5, 1997)

Dynamic HTML: Create Objects that Let You Modify Pages on the Fly by Nick Heinle (published in Web Review, April 1997)

Has Microsoft Turned the Corner? by Richard Karpinski (published in TechWeb, April 1997)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Microsoft by Taylor (published in Webmonkey, April 2, 1997)

Dynamic HTML: This Ain't Layers by Jeffrey Veen (published in Webmonkey, March 24, 1997)

CNET has also created Dynamic HTML demos to demonstrate Internet Explorer 4.0 features. See the CNET Browser Playground