- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:45:59 -0700
- To: "Claude Zervas" <claude@utlco.com>, "Stephen R. Savitzky" <steve@crc.ricoh.com>, "Mike Champion" <mcc@arbortext.com>
- Cc: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>, <www-dom@w3.org>
> Despite the current DOM spec's notice about the DOM not being usable in a > multithreaded environment it really has to be on the server-side when many clients > are accessing the same document at once. Otherwise resource usage becomes > intolerable. To make NodeList and HTMLCollection always live is > really asking for non-standard implementations. Maybe there needs to > be a 'Scripting DOM' for the browser implementors and a spec for > everything else that lends itself to somewhat efficient implementations. > > I'm fairly certain that the most intensive use of the DOM will > not be for client-side special effects but on the server for > more interesting document services via servlets et al. The current spec indicates that we have not defined the *standard* way a user can use the DOM in a threaded environment: that stuff will be added in level 2. Also, as I noted, one way to handle "liveness" is to simply say that documents are locked... effectively making them read-only, in which case liveness is moot.
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