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Developers
Line Up to Use Microsoft Dynamic HTML Behaviors For Easier-to-Build, More
Powerful Web Pages
Hundreds of Companies Already Using New Technology in
Internet Explorer 5 Beta; Microsoft Announces Winners in Dynamic HTML Behaviors
Contest REDMOND, Wash. - March 3, 1999 - Microsoft Corp. today
announced the top 15 winners in its Dynamic HTML Behaviors contest. The long
list of contest entries demonstrates the growing momentum for this
standards-based technology, which makes it faster and easier to build more
powerful and functional Web pages. The Dynamic HTML Behaviors contest, judged by Project Cool
Inc.'s Glenn Davis, invited Web site developers to submit sites created using
Dynamic HTML behaviors that demonstrate the technology's uniqueness, maximum
usability, robustness and documentation capabilities. The contest was open to
all developers participating in the Microsoft Site Builder Web site program
between November 1998 and January 1999. For more information on the contest and
its winners, please see http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/ie/dhtmlbehave.asp. More Accessible and Easier-to-Use Dynamic HTML Dynamic HTML behaviors are lightweight components in Internet
Explorer 5 that make Dynamic HTML more accessible and easier to use by
separating the script or code from the content and style of a Web document.
Dynamic HTML behaviors attach HTML components (HTCs), for which the
specification was submitted to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in November,
into Web pages. The resulting componentization not only allows for reuse of
Dynamic HTML scripts, but also provides Web builders with a single way to create
and debug their pages, making site development faster and easier. Behaviors are also the ultimate extensibility mechanism,
allowing developers to create and expose their own methods, properties and
events to the Web page, making the pages easier to build and much more powerful.
In addition, behaviors are standards-based and compatible with popular Web tools
that developers already use. "Our primary design goal with behaviors was to make
Dynamic HTML Web pages and applications easier to build," said Chris Jones,
product unit manager for Internet Explorer at Microsoft. "To see this type
of adoption, with hundreds of Web sites now using the technology even before the
final release of the product, is very exciting. It demonstrates that customers
believe we hit our mark." Faster, More Interactive Web Pages With scripted behaviors readily available, Web page creators
do not need to focus as much on the technical aspects of their pages. Writers
can focus on content, and graphic designers can focus on format, resulting in
more interesting, attractive and functional Web pages. In addition, because
behaviors are downloaded and cached once on a user's hard drive, users avoid the
time-consuming task of downloading the components repeatedly, regardless of how
often they're used in multiple Web pages across a site. Thus, Web page creators
can visit and use multiple Web pages more quickly. "Behaviors are a great way to enhance the user's
experience while maintaining backward compatibility with older browsers,"
said Glenn Davis, chief technology officer of the popular Web developer site
Project Cool and judge of the Dynamic HTML Behaviors contest. "Once
created, behaviors make it easy for any Web designer to implement and build
applications that would have required much more effort with HTML alone. And
besides that, they are a heck of a lot of fun to play with!" Contest Winners A Micron laptop personal computer was awarded to the
developers of the three winning sites named in the Microsoft Dynamic HTML
Behaviors contest: To find out about other Dynamic HTML Behaviors contest
winners, see http://www.microsoft.com/sitebuilder/ie/dhtmlbehave.asp. Availability Dynamic HTML behaviors are supported in the beta version of
Internet Explorer 5. In addition, the following Web sites already offer
extensive, royalty-free Dynamic HTML behavior libraries, so developers can
easily download and instantly add the functionality they want to their Web pages
without having to know how to develop the behaviors: Copyright (C)
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