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Static Content -- the same stuff in the disk file and on the screen:
- "Pure" HTML pages (Content-Type: text/html)
- Text files: (Content-Type: text/plain)
- Binary files: PDF, MS-WORD, tar.gz (Content-Type: application/something)
Dynamic Content on the client -- content retrieved from the Web server is passed unchanged to the browser, and browser executes parts of it:
- Client based JavaScript (ECMA script). For example:
  Last changed: <script>document.write(document.lastModified);</script>
- VBScript
- Java Applets
- Cascading Style Sheets/Dynamic HTML
- HTML Meta Records:
Dynamic Content on the server -- content retrieved from the disk file is changed/executed by the server.
- Common Gateway Interface (CGI),
- Proprietary Server Based APIs (e.g., NSAPI or ISAPI) -- fast (in process) but proprietary.
- Server based Java Script (Netscape/iPlanet)
- Server Side Includes (HTTPD, Apache)
- Java Servlets
- eXtensible Style Sheet Language Transformations (XSLT)
- Server pages -- bits of code inserted into HTML: ASP pages -Microsoft, Java Server Pages - Sun.
- lots of other approaches

Dynamic Web Content