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DHTML/Javascript games With the development of Document Object Model Level 2 technologies in the late 1990s, it became possible to produce games that would run within a browser without the need of 3rd party plugins. These games were written in DHTML (Dynamic HTML), which is a combination of CSS and Javascript. Normally used for drop down menus and simple image rollovers,: DHTML can be used to produce the animation effects required for sprite based action games. Ajax programming techniques can also be used to further advance these types of games
[edit] Server-side games A growing number of games are being created using server-side scripting, in a language such as PHP, ASP, Ruby, Perl, Python and Java. Games such as this store all code server side and only send the user's browser HTML markup language for interpretation. Some include JavaScript or Ajax to allow the user to see immediate responses to their online actions and make the games more visually appealing.