DHTML
Proper noun
Meaning
DHTML
(HTML) Abbreviation of dynamic HTML.
Examples
Although the Legacy DOM implementations were largely compatible since JScript was based on JavaScript, the DHTML DOM extensions were developed in parallel by each browser maker and remained incompatible.
Although a number of games were created using DHTML during the late 1990s and early 2000s, differences between browsers made this difficult: many techniques had to be implemented in code to enable the games to work on multiple platforms.
As applets were available before CSS and DHTML were standard, they were also widely used for trivial effects such as rollover navigation buttons.
DHTML required extensions to the rudimentary document object that was available in the Legacy DOM implementations.
By contrast, an Ajax page uses features of DHTML to initiate a request (or 'subrequest') to the server to perform additional actions.
DHTML allows scripting languages to change variables in a web page's definition language, which in turn affects the look and function of otherwise "static" HTML page content, after the page has been fully loaded and during the viewing process.