Re: DOM L2 comments, various

From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 14:34:33 -0700 Message-ID: <37F91D69.A3941F4@pacbell.net> To: www-dom@w3.org · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 27 October 2009 08:24:51 GMT

"Stephen R. Savitzky" wrote:
> 
> And in any case it's unlikely that an application will be using an extended
> version of the DOM unless it's prepared to deal with the extensions.

I wouldn't ever say that.  DOM is an API designed for application
portability.  Within the scope of the DOM API, everything should
be _strictly_ conformant ... else that's a bug in that DOM, which
that DOM implementor needs to fix ASAP.

- Dave