# Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

<datetime class="hidden">2003-11-23T00:00</datetime>
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[Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/archive/2003/11/23/648.aspx) 

posted on [11:22 PM](https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.mostlylucid.co.uk/archive/2003/11/23/648.aspx)

Reading [this post](http://weblogs.asp.net/ssharrock/posts/32439.aspx) from [Stephen Sharrock](http://weblogs.asp.net/ssharrock/) reminded me about something I often overlook, the phenomenally powerful DHTML behaviours which IE supports using HTC files. The [WebService behaviour](http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/samples/internet/default.asp?url=/downloads/samples/internet/behaviors/library/webservice/default.asp) for instance lets you pull information into your client from aribtrary web services, even without using HTCs, tools like [xLoadTree](http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/xloadtree/xloadtree.html) provide the ability to load data straight into the client without forcing a postback. 
Before anyone comments, I know these are IE only - to be honest I don't care, when only [3% of users use anything other than IE](http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp), it seems a shame to ignore the functional improvements these kind of tools provide. 
Now, Mozilla does support it's own version using [XBL and XUL](http://cogworks.manilasites.com/newsItems/departments/mozillaXulAndXbl) - hopefully some genius will work out a way for mozilla to support full HTC as well...