- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:24:46 -0800
- To: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, public-html <public-html@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > This means that agents that do not support scripting may use a different > object model. For example, it's conforming to implement a no-scripting > agent with XOM as the internal object model. The Validator.nu HTML > Parser even supports XOM out-of-the-box. > As you point out XOM instead of DOM is not a big leap. They're both tree model after all. I'm more concerned about more radical changes like SAX or other streaming APIs or document specific data bound models or even stranger things. Is it plausible to extend the HTML 5 parsing model to cover this? I also strongly question the wisdom of locking in one of the absolute worst APIs we have. If there's one thing that needs replacing in the HTML ecosystem, it's DOM. Sooner or later DOM will be replaced, and if HTML 5 is standing in the way when that day comes, then HTML 5 is going to come up the loser. Were the object model separable from the syntax and semantics, then the sensible parts of HTML 5 would have a better chance of surviving the transition. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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