- From: Ray D. Whitmer <rayw@imall.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 14:22:50 -0700 (MST)
- To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- cc: brad@yahoo-inc.com, ldwood@attglobal.net, www-dom@w3.org
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, David Brownell wrote: >Brad Clawsie wrote: >> >> > Now that the DOM Level 2 is nearing a stage where all that remains to be >> > done is to make sure it can be implemented :-), >> >> hopefully after yesterday's announcement that sun is withdrawing java >> from the ECMA standardization process (a process they initiated), >> people will choose another language for reference implementations. > >I don't think those of us with L2 in Java will be inclined to stop. I think we all reconsider our options from time to time, and this will be seen as a negative, but until something else emerges that solves the implementor's requirements as well as Java did, it is hard to make a case for switching right away. >And in any case the L2 spec needs to be implementable in both Java >and JavaScript, since those are the standardized bindings. > >Question: how is an implementor going to know their implementation >is correct, and conforms to the specification? There are no compliance tests. The spec is the sole source of info to determine whether the implementation is compliant or not. Tests would be desirable IMO, but are always incomplete, and would have to defer to the spec for additional cases, which can never be entirely covered. I think that part of this exercize is to find places where the spec is not clear enough for a developer to know whether the spec is being followed or not. Ray Whitmer ray@imall.com
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