- From: Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 21:42:43 -0400
- To: steve@crc.ricoh.com (Stephen R. Savitzky)
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
At 09:15 PM 7/29/98 -0400, Stephen R. Savitzky wrote: >Mike Champion <mcc@arbortext.com> writes: > >> For better or worse, the Level 1 DOM is being driven by the need for a >> standard that allows Dynamic HTML scripts that interoperate between the NS >> and MS browsers. We are, to a certain extent, rushing the spec out the >> door to avoid missing the window of opportunity provided by the 5.0 >> releases of the browsers, because if we miss it, the opportunity is gone >> forever. > >Just how much time do we have? Essentially none. The spec must go to the W3C ASAP, by the middle of next week at the latest. >In the interests of moving things along, let me make some very specific >suggestions: > >2. in Node: > add: boolean inDocument(); > > This will allow ``orphan'' nodes to be identified without > requiring each Document to have an identifiable DocumentFragment > that contains newly-created nodes. It does not preclude such a > fragment, however. We're discussing this, although there seems to be some confusion as to why this is necesary to you and others who have suggested it. As for your other suggestions, I'll take a close look at them the next pass thru the spec.
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