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It may be used to create small applications in a [[web browser]]: for example to ease navigation, to create interactive [[form (document)|form]]s or to create interactive exercises to use in [[e-learning]].
Competing techniques include [[Macromedia Flash]] for animation, [[Java programming language|Java]] [[Java applet|applets]] and [[Scalable Vector Graphics]] (SVG), though SVG isn't yet well-supported by the major web browsers.
Some disadvantages of DHTML are that it is difficult to develop and [[debug]] due to varying degrees of support among web browsers of the aforementioned technologies and that the variety of screen sizes means the end look can only be fine-tuned on a limited number browser/screen-size combinations. Development for recent browsers, such as [[Internet Explorer]] 5.0+, [[Netscape]] 6.0+, and [[Opera (web browser)|Opera]] 7.0+, is aided by a shared [[Document Object Model]].
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