It is very convenient to connect an HTML presentation directly to XML data for interium updates because XML data and web services become more wide spread, Microsoft first implemented the XMLHttp request object in internet explorer 5 for windows as an ActiveX object, the same functionality is covered in a proposed W3C standard document object model in the mean time growing support for the XMLHttp request object means that it has become the de facto standard that will likely be supported even after the W3C specifications become final and it starts
"Microsoft first implemented the XMLHttpRequest object in Internet Explorer 5 for Windows as an ActiveX object. Engineers on the Mozilla project implemented a compatible native version for Mozilla 1.0 (and Netscape 7). Apple has done the same starting with Safari 1.2.
Similar functionality is covered in a proposed W3C standard, Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification. In the meantime, growing support for the XMLHttpRequest object means that is has become a de facto standard that will likely be supported even after the W3C
You may never have heard of it, but HTML Tidy isn't new. HTML Tidy is a once-free but now open source application. It was originally written in C as a command-line executable by W3C employee Dave Raggett, before being taken over as an open source initiative in 2000. Somewhat characteristically of open source efforts, it's managed to shun the limelight, yet an ever increasing number of Web professionals rely on it daily to get their jobs done.
The principal reason it's so popular is because it combines syntactic, semantic, and stylistic advice in a
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