What your web browser can show you has come a long way from the days when HTML code was the only option.
Tristream's display coding teams have a significant number of tools available to create a productive and richly textured user experience. (X)HTML, CSS (cascading style sheets), DHTML (dynamic HTML), javascript and other tools, when used with fine expertise, can create user interfaces that can match the utility and functionality of client server applications - and run light and fast.
Often we find that application developers short change what can be displayed through a web browser simply because they aren't aware of the potentials or have many misconceptions about web-based display code being too heavy and slow. Or the display is short changed because the development team uses only the interface devices they already know how to create because in all likelihood they will end up doing the display coding themselves. This frequently results in very simple, or very slow, or a just plain bad user interface experience.
Tristream's "front-end" display coding team also uses a number of other tools, database protocols (such as XML) and programming code (such as Java) in order to optimize the integration between display and the "back-end". Dynamically generated site and application content requires sophisticated content management and web serving strategies, and Tristream excels at integrating display with the needs of the back-end infrastructure and IT environment, and in fact often opens up new possibilities for the development team.