For our purposes, we'll consider behavior to be all the script on the page. We'll define content as all of the useful information that you want to get across to people. However, that's not our topic today. Quick-Change Artistry Imagine how much easier it would be to maintain pages that have to update often if the actual page didn't have to change at all. This is done quite often today using server-side technologies, in which a template .asp page looks in some type of database to get the content out, then sends the aggregate page to the client.
Lets take a look at a simple page that uses data binding.
To see the sample, you must be running Internet Explorer 4.0 View simple data-binding sample page . This page has three important parts. The job of the Data Source Object is to collect the information, and make it available to Internet Explorer to display. The TDC is an example of a Data Source Object, but it is by no means the only one. A Data Source Object can be written as an ActiveX control or a Java applet.