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> > Is it all Mike Champion's fault? :) > > Probably. If we just had more people like him to blame... I'll have to take some of the blame. Although I am well known for lack of patience and tolerance for quality bullshed, I was right there while the shed was being built and let everything happen as it did. By the time I joined, basic design direction have already been decided on, and being 'inside the house', so to speak, makes it more difficult to 'tear the house down'. All the complaints from outside about DOM was already in the minds of everyone 'inside', yet the momentum and pressure to produce something was tremendous and could not be overcome. I remember James Clark making one last ditch effort with an alternative design proposal, but the amount of time and work already invested into the original design was hard to abandon, even if most felt the alternate proposal was good. Ultimately, it was the DOM requirements that neutered it. Backward compatibility, language independence, and wide range of applications are nice on paper, but hard to design for. We would have had better results if we initially targeted just JavaScript and browser application. We also should have built more DOM applications instead of focusing only on DOM implementation issues. In this respect, W3C's Candidate Recommendation phase should also require at least one or two applications to be written before being raised to Proposed Recommendation status. Best, Don Park Docuverse
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