Scott Isaacs is a developer for Microsoft Corporation who is best known for the development of
Dynamic HTMLDynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language , a client-side scripting language , a presentation definition language , and the Document Object Model.DHTML allows scripting...
(DHTML), which is at the core of what is commonly termed
AjaxAJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. With AJAX, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page...
.
Scott has been at Microsoft since 1993 and has helped define many early technologies. He worked on the first
ActiveXObject Linking and Embedding is a technology that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects developed by Microsoft. For developers, it brought OLE Control eXtension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements...
Control, helped create the forms package in
Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Office was introduced by Microsoft in 1989 for Mac OS, with a version for Windows in 1990...
, defined many web standards, and is now driving the architecture for
Microsoft GadgetsMicrosoft Gadgets are light-weight single-purpose applications that can sit on the user's computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this is currently not...
and frameworks driving
Windows LiveWindows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also applications that need to be installed...
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As a program manager on the
Internet ExplorerWindows Internet Explorer , is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995...
team in the mid-90's, Scott not only defined DHTML but also created the
CSSCascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
2-D positioning specification, many of the form enhancements (e.g., LABEL, FieldSet) helping improve web-based form accessibility and usability, XML Data Islands, and much more.
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Scott Isaacs is a developer for Microsoft Corporation who is best known for the development of
Dynamic HTMLDynamic HTML, or DHTML, is a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language , a client-side scripting language , a presentation definition language , and the Document Object Model.DHTML allows scripting...
(DHTML), which is at the core of what is commonly termed
AjaxAJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. With AJAX, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page...
.
Scott has been at Microsoft since 1993 and has helped define many early technologies. He worked on the first
ActiveXObject Linking and Embedding is a technology that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects developed by Microsoft. For developers, it brought OLE Control eXtension , a way to develop and use custom user interface elements...
Control, helped create the forms package in
Microsoft OfficeMicrosoft Office is an office suite of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. Microsoft Office was introduced by Microsoft in 1989 for Mac OS, with a version for Windows in 1990...
, defined many web standards, and is now driving the architecture for
Microsoft GadgetsMicrosoft Gadgets are light-weight single-purpose applications that can sit on the user's computer desktop, or are hosted on a web page. According to Microsoft, it will be possible for the different types of gadgets to run on different environments without modification, but this is currently not...
and frameworks driving
Windows LiveWindows Live is the collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also applications that need to be installed...
.
As a program manager on the
Internet ExplorerWindows Internet Explorer , is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems starting in 1995...
team in the mid-90's, Scott not only defined DHTML but also created the
CSSCascading Style Sheets is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics of a document written in a markup language...
2-D positioning specification, many of the form enhancements (e.g., LABEL, FieldSet) helping improve web-based form accessibility and usability, XML Data Islands, and much more. He wrote the original definitive guide to Dynamic HTML, Inside Dynamic HTML, published by
Microsoft PressMicrosoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Press' first introduced books were The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu and Exploring the IBM PC by Peter Norton in 1984 at the West Coast Computer Faire...
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Scott is responsible for inventing the
Widget architectureIn computer software, a widget engine is a software service available to users for running and displaying applets on a graphical user interface, such as that of the desktop....
(originally called Gadgets) for Windows Live.
Today, Scott continues to drive the client architecture that runs Windows Live and
MSNMSN, formerly The Microsoft Network, is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft. The Microsoft Network debuted as an online service and Internet service provider on August 24, 1995, to coincide with the release of the Windows 95 operating system.The range of services...
Services. MSN Hotmail, MSN Spaces, Windows Live, etc., all being built around his DHTML-based Gadget/Widget Architecture.
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