- From: Stephen R. Savitzky <steve@crc.ricoh.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 1998 09:21:41 -0700
- To: Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com> writes: > OH NO! NOT THIS AGAIN ... yup, we've been around this track a few times. > There are numerous reasonable ways to do this, and we decided that this is > the cleanest. Remember that we try to balance the needs of the users and > the implementers, the old-time SGML weenies and the HTML users born again > as XML users, etc. NO -- you are not balancing the needs of the users and the implementors of the DOM, you are balancing the needs of the users and implementors of client-side scripting languages. The DOM has, at least potentially, many more applications than just being the semantic model behind Javascript, and it would be nice if those of us who are trying to build real, working document-processing applications could get at least a _little_ input into the process. -- Stephen R. Savitzky Chief Software Scientist, Ricoh Silicon Valley, Inc., <steve@rsv.ricoh.com> California Research Center voice: 650.496.5710 fax: 650.854.8740 URL: http://rsv.ricoh.com/~steve/ home: <steve@starport.com> URL: http://www.starport.com/people/steve/
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