Benefiting from DHTML
The following two sections will cover two key features of DHTML. The first is the reduction of round-trips to the server. This enables you to shift the load from the server to the browser to enable better scalability. The section after that, "Selectively Augmenting the User Interface (UI)," will cover enhancements that you can make to the user interface, resulting in a richer experience for the user.
Reducing Round-Trips to the Server
When the World Wide Web was first taking off in 1995, browsers were very limited in what they could do. They were, in fact, pretty close to being almost "dumb terminals." Besides understanding the limited set of HTML commands, they didn't do much more. Therefore any validation or database ...
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