Comment by randallsquared
3 days ago
> Javascript was not ubiquitous when the term DHTML was last seriously used.
It wasn't as fast or as usable as it is today, but Javascript has been in every mainstream browser since before Microsoft started pushing "DHTML".
Interestingly, in my memory, it seemed like we had JS for a long time before DHTML, but it was only a couple years between Eich writing it and IE4, which was the start of the "DHTML" moniker. Looking back at the timeline, everything seems much more compressed than it felt at the time.
That could be. And yeah, DHTML came and went pretty quickly even by today's standards.