HTML5, I'd say. I'd be careful with the term DHTML.

Definitions of DHTML:
Microsoft: "Introduction to Dynamic HTML
Dynamic HTML (DHTML) is a set of innovative features originally
introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0. By enabling authors to
dynamically change the rendering and content of a Web page as the user
interacts with it, DHTML enables authors to create visually compelling
Web sites without the overhead of server-side programs or complicated
sets of controls to achieve special effects."

Wikipedia: "Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a
collection of technologies used together to create interactive and
animated web sites[1] by using a combination of a static markup
language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as
JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the
Document Object Model."

http://www.webstandards.org/action/dstf/definitions/ "DHTML
An outdated scripting technique that is mainly characterized by the
changes it makes to the style properties of certain elements, and by
the use of the browser-specific DOMs document.layers and
document.all."

Check the comments on this blog post:
http://www.codestore.net/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20100409-0432

"Is something written purely in DHTML classed as RIA? I don't see why
not, I guess, but it's just not what I personally would class as RIA.
To me RIAs are what step up to the mark when DHTML can't deliver. With
the advent of HTML 5 this might all change, but, for now I think
there's a gap between what DHTML can do and RIAs can."

"Hmmm... there's definitely a gap (always-narrowing, however) between
what DHTML can offer versus Flex/Silverlight/etc."

As an Adobe expert said: OL DHTML is the closest you can get to Flash
without using Flash, but many people don't know that fact. To me,
DHTML sounds old, ugly and out-dated.

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Lou Iorio <[email protected]> wrote:
> Do we want to say HTML5 everywhere we now say DHTML?
> Right now, the only place I see it in the software is the HTML5
> button in the dev console, and under that it still says:
> Runtime Target: dhtml
> I need to at least update the screenshots for the dev console:
> they are very out of date in the doc.

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