## DYNAMIC HTML

Netscape Communicator 4.0 features a set of technologies called Dynamic HTML, which provides the next major step forward in the HTML revolution. By transforming static content into interactive applications, Dynamic HTML provides three key benefits:

1. It provides a richer, more dynamic experience on Web pages, making them more like dynamic applications and less like static content. Dynamic HTML presents richly formatted pages and lets you interact with the content on those pages without having to download additional content from the server. This means that a page can respond immediately to user actions, such as a mouse click, without having to retrieve an entire new page from the server. It also provides more exciting and useful information on sites that use Dynamic HTML.
2. It makes it easy for developers to create pages that look and behave exactly as intended. By leveraging support for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1), Dynamic HTML gives developers precise control over formatting, fonts, and layout, and provides a dramatically enhanced object model for making pages interactive. This gives content developers greater creative freedom to create the most exciting and useful pages on the Web.
3. It serves as the foundation for crossware, a new class of platform-independent, on-demand applications built entirely using Dynamic HTML, Java, and JavaScript. Netscape Netcaster, a component of Netscape Communicator, is Netscape's first crossware application.

To make the Web more exciting and useful, and to ensure that authors of Dynamic HTML have access to the largest possible audience, Netscape has made Dynamic HTML available on all Communicator platforms (Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and NT, Macintosh, and Unix). All Dynamic HTML technologies were developed in conjunction with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and other applicable standards bodies, and are fully compatible with all existing W3C recommendations. HTML, CSS1, and JavaScript are approved or recommended standards; HTML positioning is a W3C working draft; and the HTML object model and dynamic fonts are being developed in conjunction with the W3C. Netscape's Dynamic HTML does not contain any proprietary or platform-specific languages or controls.

Since its inception last December in Netscape Communicator Preview Release 1, Dynamic HTML has been used on various sites across the Web. Examples of Dynamic HTML technologies can be found on the Hot Features and Demos page in the Communicator site. See the StockWatch demo to experience dynamic font support, the Royal Newsletter demo for an example of how to use style sheets, and the Stella Chelsea demo for HTML positioning and layering.

To create Dynamic HTML content for your Web site, see the documentation on Netscape DevEdge.

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