A souped-up programming language will be cascading onto the Web in 1998 -- Dynamic HTML.

It's a new concept for the mark-up language that defines the way a browser displays pages.

DHTML combines standard tagging with scripting languages and cascading style sheets.

Scripting languages, like Javascript or VBScript, are limited programming languages that can be embedded into HTML pages.

The new programming language enhances the interactivity of a Web page.

"Web page content becomes more malleable, and text, images, and other objects can be hidden, shown, and flown around the page," said Nick Heinle, the author of an article about DHTML on the DHTML Zone Web site.

"With DHTML, the Web can not only be lightweight and cross-platform, but also as entertaining and exciting as any multimedia application."

Style sheets give page builders control over general layout and presentation.

"Text can be overlapped, the background can be aligned with the foreground without frame and table tricks, and content can be organized within independent blocks instead of just within the constricting cells of a table," Heinle writes.

The World Wide Web Consortium has been working on developing standards for Dynamic HTML. Microsoft and Netscape support their own versions of Dynamic HTML on their browsers.

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