New technology delivers standard API and dynamism to HTML and XHTML 1.0. (Internet Focus).Leading the Web to its full potential, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, www.w3.org) An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. It is hosted in the U.S. by the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT (www.csail.mit.edu/index.php). ) today published the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. as a W3C Recommendation A W3C Recommendation is the final stage of a ratification process of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) working group concerning the standard. It is the equivalent of a published standard in many other industries. . The specification reflects cross-industry agreement on a standard API (Application Programming Interface) for manipulating HTML and XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. 1.0 documents and data through a programming language (such as Java or ECMAScript). A W3C Recommendation indicates that a specification is stable, contributes to Web interoperability Web interoperability means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible web browsers, various operating systems such as Windows, Macintosh and Linux and devices such as PC, PDA and mobile phone based on the latest web standards. , and has been reviewed by the W3C Membership, who favor its adoption by the industry. DOM Level 2 HTML Makes Scripting Easier, More Reliable "Dynamic HTML (1) A general term for (HTML pages) Web pages that are customized for each user; for example, returning different values from a search. Contrast with a "static HTML" page, which is the same for all users. See dynamic Web page. " is a term used by some vendors to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated. The Document Object Model--abbreviated as DOM--is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. Over the years, W3C has developed a uniform way in which the object model of HTML documents should be exposed to scripts. The W3C DOM Working Group makes sure interoperable and scripting-language neutral solutions are agreed upon Adj. 1. agreed upon - constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement; "stipulatory obligations" stipulatory noncontroversial, uncontroversial - not likely to arouse controversy , beginning with a suite of initial work on DOM Level 1, in 1998. The majority of DOM Level 2 was completed in 2000, but DOM Level 2 Model for HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents required further work. With the publication of the W3C DOM Level 2 Recommendation, that work is now complete. DOM Level 2 HTML provides the interface that gives programs and scripts a standard way to navigate, transform and update both HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents. Wherever you use HTML or XHTML 1.0, you can use the DOM to manipulate it. DOM Level 2 HTML Has Thorough Implementation Experience and Test Suites To ensure the usefulness and viability of W3C specifications, W3C Working Groups are required to provide both implementation reports and test suites which can be used by developers to begin to test their own software. In the case of DOM Level 2 HTML, the Working Group produced a test suite with over 500 individual tests which are free for any developer to use. www.w3.org |
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