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Dynamic Web Pages

HTML tags are static   (i.e. produce a fixed rendering).

"Dynamic" web documents come in two flavours ...

  • Web pages generated "on-the-fly" from non-HTML data sources:
    • SSP   (program running in web server generates HTML)
    • CGI   (program running outside web server generates HTML)
  • Web pages with interactive content:
    • JavaScript   (browser manipulates document object model)
    • Java Applet   (JVM in browser executes Java program)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) gives user fine-grained control of appearance.