Once upon a time - in a world before MashupCamps and online widget platforms like live.com, before Google's personalized homepage and pageflakes, and before JSON, Comet, Dojo, and Apache Derby - there was a term 'DHTML' (for dynamic HTML). It was used, as Wikipedia reminds us, for 'a collection of technologies, used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), the presentation definition language (e.g. Cascading Style Sheets [CSS]), and the Document Object Model.'