- From: Taras Tielkes <t.r.tiekes@zap.a2000.nl>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:13:02 +0200
- To: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>, <www-dom@w3.org>
> >The early versions of Netscape added the "alert()" (and similar) methods > [...] > >Are there any plans for incorporating functionality like this in to a > future > >DOM spec? > > I don't think there are any plans. As far as I know, it isn't something > we've looked at in detail. > > Alerts seem to be part of the information/decoration surrounding a > presentation of the document (which I believe some folks have referred to > as the tool's "chrome"), rather than part of the document per se. So > personally I'm inclined to consider them out of the scope of the Document > Object Model and refer this question to another committee. But it's > possible that the Views And Formatting editorial team might want to make > this part of their work; that's the portion of the DOM which comes closest > to discussing rendering and presentation. The dialog could be seen as just another document. The relevant methods (something like "showDialog(...)" and a way to return, say, a ECMAScript object as a result from the dialog) just provide a very thin connection between the two documents. I see that functionality like this is on the border of the DOM. But as it is, none of the current w3 groups will take it, while there is a great potentian for improvement of functionality. Regards, Taras
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