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--- Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> wrote: > On Apr 06, 2006, at 01:41, Michael Champion wrote: > > > Any input from this gang of heretical > DOM-haters? > > > > Take the poor ol' thing to the vet and put it out > of its misery? > > No effing way :) I love the stuff. And I'm pretty > much most folks in > the WebAPI WG and our community would agree. Keep in > mind that the > alternatives don't includes the likes of DOM Events, > which is a > crucial piece of the architecture for us. ... > - simplifying things by moving the interfaces > that aren't needed > in browsers into separate (optional) modules; and > - perhaps taking care of a few rough edges that > experience shows > folks always get wrong. > > > Seriously, DOM-the-standard's only reason to live > these days is to > > make portable browser -- oops, sorry "Web 2.0" -- What might be necessary is really to divide the scope in two somewhat disjoint pieces: case of having general API/framework for manipulating XML within browser platform; and the case of using DOM on other platforms. Since DOM came from the former, maybe it has more relevance within that domain. For one browser platform is more static in many ways, so long-living standard API is more important (both since vendors have more control over the platform than in stand-alone use cases; and due to legacy deployments of clients). So problems, concerns and challenges are quite different between someone trying do Ajax client-side xml processing, vs. someone doing server-side xml message handling. As such, solutions are likely to be different as well. I think most of most negative comments are regarding using DOM outside of browsers. -+ Tatu +- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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