Internet Explorer 4.0 Info & Install Netscape Navigator 4.0 Info & Install Dynamic HTML Demo [from MacroMedia]

h ot Ink is a Dynamic HTML Channel. Dynamic HTML invigorates and revitalizes the Web. Documents that used to be relatively lifeless -- with the exception of a few animated GIFs -- can now come alive. Objects can move and morph, and shoot at each other, and even react to a user's actions. It's more fun than watching television! How did this happen? The Microsoft team that was developing the next-generation HTML editor determined that it would be possible to turn the editor into a browser -- to build both from the same code base. This development also incorporated the cool idea of using snippets of scripting code to perform editor-like functions.

This means documents no longer just sit there. Anything the editor could do, the browser could do as well: add and remove parts of an HTML page, change the font of some text, replace an image -- anything. Instead of the difficult javascript "layering" of Netscape 4.0, Internet Explorer 4.0 makes possible truly Dynamic HTML. People can tell the browser what to do.

Interestingly, although people creating Web pages generally determine the order in which words and images appear on a Web page, they don't actually tell the browser where on the page to put the different words and images. The individual browser actually positions the elements on the page depending on the size of the browser window and some other factors. In other words, unlike in magazines, the author doesn't have complete control over the way the Web pages eventually are displayed.

c oming next week: a Letter from P.I. Reporter John Marshall, an Encounter with Neil Gaiman, more information about Drinking Dynamic Hot Ink, a report on Las Vegas' Literary Disaster and a Preview of Steelhead's New Issue.

All this and more, printed FRESH for you, starting Monday!

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