16.3 Interactive Web Pages
When HTML was first developed, it was amazing in its ability to format network-based text and images in interesting ways. However, that information was static—there was no way to interact with the information and pictures presented in a web page.
As users have clamored for a more dynamic Web, new technologies have been developed to accommodate these requests. These technologies take different approaches to solving the problem. Many of the new ideas are offshoots of the Java programming language, which is able to exploit the Web because of its platform independence. Let’s look briefly at two of these technologies: Java applets and Java Server Pages.
Java Applets
A Java applet is a program that is designed to be ...
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