On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 11:33:56 +1030, Mike Gratton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >S�ren Kuklau wrote: > >> >> For those who don't know what DOM is, the DOM inspector is useless. It's >> rather a tool for html and javascript authors. > > >And a damm fine one at that. The DOM Inspector, Venkman (the JS >debugger) and "dump()" make Moz an insanely great web development >platform (apologies to Steve Jobs). > >For Erik: the DOM is a programming model which represents a HTML (or >other markup-like) document as a tree. It defines standard methods and >properties to allow programmers to manipulate the tree and hence the >document. > >For example, the DOM allows you to write some Javascript which inserts >text into an HTML document, on the client side, after the page has been >loaded. Most DHTML efftects that you see (images changing when you mouse >over them, client-side form validation, etc) use the DOM. > >Now, there's many different DOMs out there. The W3C's DOM (which S�ren) >pointed you to is *the* DOM. It's the standard. MS has their own for IE, >which is vaugely similar to the W3C DOM. NS has their own in NS4, which >is a lot less similar to the W3C DOM. However, luckily for us Mozilla >uses the W3C's DOM. > >HTH, >Mike. That's good. Now I know I don't need it. It crashes Mozilla every time I try to install it in the side bar. Come to think of it that side bar is a waste of real estate in my opinion. Glad I can minimise it.
