- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 10:10:50 -0500
- To: Jesse McCarthy <mccarthy36@earthlink.net>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org, neil_laurance@yahoo.co.uk
> I disagree that it is trivial. What is the use of standards if you still have > to write code forks to accomodate every browser known to man? The use of standards is to standardize the things the standard covers. If one standard (the DOM) doesn't cover that part of the browser APIs (it doesn't), that sounds like a great opportunity to start a project to establish one that does. Every API project needs to draw a boundary somewhere and say what it does and doesn't cover. The DOM is intended to be API for the data model representing the document; it isn't specific to browsers, so it doesn't attempt to define browser behavior except within that one box. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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