RE: [Dynapi-Help] (no subject)

[Abre Chase]

DOM, DHTML and CSS all work together.  DOM is simply the underlying Object Model.  You can still use CSS for positioning.

 

Think of the DOM as your API to locate elements on the page....using methods like:

 

document.getElementById();

 

And as a standardized interface to page elements (objects).  An interface which will allow you to access the element's style object and change properties.

 

Before browsers were DOM compliant - they had Object Models that were unique to the vendor's implementation.  This makes an API like the DynAPI quite a valuable asset for those browsers, because no matter what browser you want your code to run on - the implementation/interface is the same.  All the hard work of implementing the vendor specific code is done by DynAPI.  If you want your stuff to run on Netscape 4.x - you need DynAPI.

 

 

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Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] (no subject)

Thank you!

I searched for a DOM 2 reference and found some useful information.

However, it seems to me that the DOM doesn't provide for the capability of positioning elements?

How much can be done, in comparison with DHTML with the DOM?


On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 11:20:56 -0400 "Abre Chase" wrote:

> DOM (Document Object Model) is a specifation that describes how to
> dynamically build/parse documents (web pages, xml, etc) through a
> common API.
>  
> http://www.w3.org/DOM/
>  
> Modern browsers (IE5, NS6, Moz) are mostly DOM compliant.
>  
> - Abre
>
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>
> Thank you.
> 
> > I'm not saying there is no need for this or any other API (
> although the 
> > DOM is an API itself ). 
> 
> Can you enlighten me about the DOM? It's an existing API? Can the
> stuff being done with DynAPI be done with DOM as well?
>
> Sorry if it's an ignorant question.
>
> Ricardo
>