Introduction

This Web site serves as a brief introduction to dynamic Hypertext Markup Language, an emerging Internet technology. More specifically, the Web site covers the following topics:

• what is dHTML?
• the reasons to use dHTML in Web sites.
• the four components that make dHTML work
• the three main players in the development of dHTML
• considerations for cross browser design.
• three simple tutorials to incorporate dHTML in Web page designs
• a list of Frequently Asked Questions
• a list of acronyms, and
• a collection of links for further study.

According to the Dynamic HTML Black Book (Pitts-Moultis, Sanders and Chandak), Microsoft owns the trademark for the term "Dynamic HTML." In this Web site, dynamic HTML means a generic implementation while Dynamic HTML means the Microsoft implementation.

Trademarked names appear throughout this site. Rather than list the names and entities that own the trademarks or insert a trade mark symbol with each mention of the trademarked name, the author of this site herby states that he is using the names for editorial purposes only and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringing that trademark.