This is a paper, written to a project team headed by the CFO of a medium-size company (about 500 employees). The CFO is technologically savvy, but has no time or patience for overly technical details unless they are relevant to the business. The Paper should be 500-600 words long, with an Introduction, a Point, a Counterpoint and a Conclusion. It should be written to present both sides of the issue but you should take a stand and defend your stance. Include relevant personal experience where possible, and cite outside evidence from at least two sources. Follow APA formatting, use a cover sheet, and include a reference section in addition to the inline citations.
DHTML (a combination of HTML, CSS and JavaScript) was seen as the way to bring interactivity to the web, but browser incompatibilities during the Browser Wars of the 1990s made it difficult to write cross-platform, sophisticated web-based applications using DHTML. Many people simply abandoned DHTML as a method for delivering the next generation of web sites. But then the W3C weighed in and recommended a set of standards which made it possible for web developers to write cross-browser compatible code as long as the browser manufacturers agree to make their browsers standards-compliant. Are the standards being rolled out too late for DHTML to regain momentum? Are other technologies like Flash and Java being used more than DHTML for interactivity, or are the W3C standards bringing DHTML back, better than ever. What do you think?


