The invention permits assembly of Web pages for display, to include text
elements received from discrete network locations, and permits
independent update of individual text elements of a Web page without
reassembling the entire Web page, and permits independent update of all
types of page elements without a client side agent other than a browser.
In one aspect of the invention, a browser at a client device updates the
display of a Web page containing at least one first element by
transmitting a request to a server for a second element that is related
to the first element, receiving the second element, and then displaying
the second element with the Web page, without reassembling the Web page.
In another aspect of the invention, the transmitting, receiving, and
displaying are accomplished without a client side agent other than the
browser.