Carlfish wrote:
>
> W3C DOM was written by a standards body. The standard is several years
> old, and has been largely ignored by everyone but the Mozilla project,
> whose browser is still in beta.
DOM Level 1 was based on the DOM of the prevalent browsers at the time -
Navigator and IE. Also, Microsoft helped create the stanard. Then after
all that, they choose to implement only a part of it. It's bizzare.
> IE DOM is a de facto standard that has been in full release-quality
> software for a long time, and that software has a 90% of the users out
> there.
>
[insert stanard remark about 10% of the people on the 'Net is still a
*huge* number of people, and that *everyone* would be better off if the
all browsers implemented the standard here]
<rant>
But hey, how hard would it be for Microsoft to implement even DOM Level
1 properly? I mean, they don't even have the Node.*_NODE consts! It
would take them literally 60 seconds to add them in and would be
guaranteed to not break a single thing. *I've* written a complete Java
DOM implementation in a day or two![0]
The only reason Microsoft don't implement the standards fully is
political. They're being petulant; they don't want to play nicely
because they can use their market advantage to lock people in to using
their software.
I personally think Microsoft should be taken to task for not getting off
their slack, self-centered arses and produce a browser that supports
basic stanards, and hearby challenge them to do it in less time than I took!
</rant>
Mike.
[0] - it sucked; it was slow and bloaty because I needed it written
fast, but it was complete.
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