Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

The Microsoft and Netscape Battle

Microsoft and Netscape implement DHTML differently, much to the dismay of many Web developers. (Netscape is the company that provides the Netscape Navigator Web browser.) The two companies provide browsers that approach DOM differently. The original Navigator browser that provided DHTML support recognized only a fraction of the object-based elements that Internet Explorer recognized. If you write a DHTML Web page for the Internet Explorer browser, you can make almost all Web-page elements objects that your scripting code can manipulate. In Navigator, only a subset of those objects can be manipulated.

Therefore, DHTML-based Web pages are more active when viewed inside Internet Explorer than the same pages viewed ...