- From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2001 16:49:38 -0800
- To: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-dom@w3.org
> The DOM is an API, not a set of specific variables. It expressed absolutely
> no opinion on what your variable are called; it just says that if you have
> an object which presents the Document interface, it will have thus-and-such
> methods and properties and behaviors.
On the other hand, to the extend that it's an API that can't be bootstrapped
(through standard-specified symbols) it's guaranteeing portability bugs.
I see no reason why DOM shouldn't standardize ways to get at a Document
in those contexts where a particular implementation ("the one glued to this
browser window/database/...") isn't needed.
- Dave
Received on Friday, 9 November 2001 21:23:57 UTC