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In the late 90s/early 2000s you'd search (probably with Altavista) for a DHTML script that did a given thing (and often it wouldn't even be that dynamic, and mi
by bdcravens 6y ago
In the late 90s/early 2000s you'd search (probably with Altavista) for a DHTML script that did a given thing (and often it wouldn't even be that dynamic, and might be something as simple as form validation; "DHTML" was kind of a catch-all phrase)
- moron4hire 6y agoOnly in the same way that people still use terms incorrectly. DHTML was the progenitor for the editing of styles on DOM objects that we do today. It has a specific meaning. Depending on how you did the form validation (highlighting input fields, or revealing error messages, rather than using an alert box or performing the validation on the server and generating a new page), it absolutely could have been DHTML.