Only 90s web developers remember this (2014)

Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by ravenstine on Sunday November 21, 2021 @11:58AM (#29297742)

Am I the only one who found the term DHTML to be one of the most useless initialisms that came from web development?

I remember seeing "DHTML" still being thrown around as late as 2005, but knowing that I could refer to the components of a webpage as "DHTML" never seemed to have any sort of utility. I never cared that I could refer to the markup as being dynamic. Big deal. What scripts and applets could I add to make things move?

Of course now we're still stuck with this "HTML5" canard that won't die because nontechnical people seem to believe it's more advanced than "HTML".

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by outsidetheparty on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:41PM (#29298078)

And HTML begat DHTML and DHTML begat XHTML and in woe and SOAP calls HTML5 was born

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by DonHopkins on Sunday November 21, 2021 @02:35PM (#29298992)

It's like "SpaceHTML". In space, they just call it "HTML".

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Re:Only 90s web developers remember this (2014) by leephillips on Sunday November 21, 2021 @06:09PM (#29300707)

But.....it’s dynamic.

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