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--- "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...> wrote: > The antecedent gets lost. Pardon if I'm picking > the wrong one. XML doesn't start with HTML. No, I was not implying it did; I did say that DOM started with HTML. > I'd be surprised if for almost all of the things > listed, > there aren't multiple parents and lineages. For Certainly, definitely. The examples weren't (meant to be) exhaustive, but to give an idea why history matters in understanding the current situation. It is easier to accept flaws (at least by people with pragmatic view of the world) knowing where things came from, and with what baggage. > A history sort is useful for assigning blame, but it > won't > fix the problems or answer the question of why DOM > is still I am not much into blaming. Living in a blame-based (moving from a guilt-based one -- different flavours of protestantic sub-cultures) society either makes you adapt to it, or protest against it. I prefer the latter group. But I do take some comfort in seeing how and why choices/decisions were made or drifted to. > thriving. I suspect it is simply momentum > overcoming any > other forces applied. DOM alternatives don't do > enough > to offset that momentum which includes the base of > installed > code both in the machines and in the human brains. I believe this is closest to consensus one can reach into this particular thread. I don't think anyone disagrees that this is a major factor. ;-) ("don't attribute to malign what can be explained by laziness" [inertia / convenience / dont-care-fulness]) -+ Tatu +- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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