RE: DOM 3 Core: Overlap with JAXP, Document order of attributes, getChildElementsByTagName, Exceptions from Fred L. Drake, Jr. on 2001-05-16 (www-dom@w3.org from April to June 2001)

From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 14:57:52 -0400 (EDT)
To: <PBWiz@mail.pbwizard.com>
Cc: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>, "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <15106.52656.641190.301325@cj42289-a.reston1.va.home.com>

Jeff Yates writes:
 > I believe the problem is that there is no conforming
 > implementations built into a browser as yet.  The closest I have
 > run into is Mozilla and it has it's bugs.  The one that applies to
 > this is that the DOM constructors are NOT exposed until an object
 > of that type is constructed first.

  Sounds like a pretty serious bug from the user's standpoint!  But as
long as it's an implementation but, then there should be no need to
change the DOM specification or even the ECMAScript mapping.

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fdrake at acm.org>
PythonLabs at Digital Creations

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