Static vs. Dynamic

[E-Jax webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

What is the overall difference between static html and dynamic html?

[Newbies]

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"E-Jax" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> What is the overall difference between static html and dynamic html?
>
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[Murray *TMM*]

Dynamic HTML uses client side scripting to dynamically change the page as
fetched from the server. The scripting usually takes the form of
javascript, although not necessarily. The changes can range from modifying
code on the page based on the client's browser, to moving a page element
across the page, or nearly anything else you can imagine.

Static HTML generally means 'what you see is what you fetched', i.e., the
code that is EXECUTING (i.e., rendered by the browser) on the page is
identical to the code that is fetched from the server.

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"E-Jax" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> What is the overall difference between static html and dynamic html?
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>

[rob :: digitalburn]

Some people on this forum also seem to take 'dynamic' to mean database
driven, which is a different thing again (although of course a site can be
both database driven, and use dHTML).

[Murray *TMM*]

rob:

Yes - we had a long discussion thread about this (ending with no resolution,
of course) over on Dreamweaver's place not long ago.

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"rob :: digitalburn" <rob@digitalburn.net> wrote in message
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> Some people on this forum also seem to take 'dynamic' to mean database
> driven, which is a different thing again (although of course a site can be
> both database driven, and use dHTML).
>
>

[rob :: digitalburn]

Oh, okay. From my experience I think dHTML conventionally means client side
stuff, and that's the sense with which I use it, but I'm not particularly
bothered either way ;)