DHTML IS javascript (And VBscript in IE), and what it can do TO HTML in a
browser. It has , in my humble opinion little to do with Java. Also, I think
that MS is not the one to push it foreward, but the development community as
a whole. It provides a richer GUI on the web. MS has the best DHTML platform
right now (IE) but the other browser company (NS) equally wants to advance
DHTML. Unfortunately there is NO CROSS BROWSER LANGUAGE!, VB script will NOT
work in NS and NS has a different object model than IE does, no matter what
you must accomodate manually for each browser. I might add to this as I'm
speaking of NS, that NS6 is a nightmare. They deviated from the DOM
recomendation enough in the 4 versions, and forced developers to bend their
programming to their methodology. Standardization is ALWAYS a major driving
force in advancement. NS 6 further abstracts any hope for common browser
standards and will now force all of us to make an ie4+ version, a ns4
version and a ns6 version as a MINIMUM to accomodate people. What a
nightmare.

Good luck with DHTML, use javascript on the client ALWAYS if you can it'll
be easier to accomdate in your code for browser differences.

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Neethling, Dirk BYNI/PLM [mailto:Dirk.Neethling2@h...]
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 1:50 AM
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] AW: VBScript / JScript DHTML


DHTML without JScript/Javascript/JS wont work. But I agree with Chris Neale,
I'
ve done lots with DHTML, I think the only reason MS pushes it is to get
people away from Java. As for new technologies, watch the curl site
(www.curl.com)
dirk

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	HJC@j... [SMTP:HJC@j...]
> Gesendet am:	Monday, September 25, 2000 7:41 PM
> An:	javascript
> Betreff:	[javascript] VBScript / JScript DHTML
>
> Hi,
>
> I have started as a web developer and l would like to get the most out of
> client side scripting. l know VBScript but all books on DHTML have
> examples written in JScript.
>
> The question l have is is VBScript cross platform - even when used for
> DHTML - as is JScript - if not then l suppose l need to learn JScript and
> DHTML, otherwise l could just learn DHTML.
>
> Hadrian
>
>