"Although MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) also looks at content and coding, SMIL is more web-centric unlike MPEG, which is more media centric and involves more than just content and coding. A close comparison would be D-HTML (dynamic hypertext markup language). However, D-HTML uses scripted definitions of local behaviours, without a notion of the presentation's context. Actions such as timed events are therefore difficult to co-ordinate.
Then there are W3C technologies such as cascading style sheets (CSS) which are compatible with SMIL, which
There's a lot of questions about what exactly makes HTML become Dynamic. To answer some of your DHTML questions, read the following: "Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is not something that can easily be pointed out, or separated from other technologies. It is a group of technologies, when brought together, enable a Web developer to bring a Web page to life.
The three main technologies that make up DHTML are HTML, JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). HTML is used for the basic structure of the document, JavaScript to manipulate the Document Object
To continue answering questions about what's Dynamic about HTML, Expert Jim Styles says: "Dynamic HTML is a collective term for a combination of new Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags and options, that will let you create Web pages more animated and more responsive to user interaction than previous versions of HTML. Much of dynamic HTML is specified in HTML 4.0. Simple examples of dynamic HTML pages would include (1) having the color of a text heading change when a user passes a mouse over it or (2) allowing a user to "drag and drop" an image to
If you've been thinking about adding printer friendly pages to your information web site, Jennifer Kyrnin has the solution for you. "There are several options:
Make a copy of every page or article - and manually remove all the non-printer-friendly stuff.
Use a (CGI, PHP, JavaScript, other) script to remove the non-printer friendly stuff on the fly.
Write a style sheet for print.
The drawback to option one should be fairly obvious to most people. It is very labor intensive and requires that for every page on your site, you create a