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Subject: Re: JavaScript unfairly blamed?
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Doc O'Leary wrote:

> In article <DOM-20140126091248@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
>  ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

It's attribution _line_, not attribution novel.

>>   Douglas Crockford wrote:
>> 
>> |The API Of the browser, the Document Object Model (DOM) is
>> |quite awful, and JavaScript is unfairly blamed.
>> 
>>   What's so awful about the DOM?
> 
> I don't think much about it but, really, the DOM *is* essentially a
> lowest common denominator representation.  I mean, in what other OO
> design would you mediate almost all object access via something like
> document.getElement...?  Where the HTML hierarchy is flattened to most
> everything being a single type of node?  It is a very generic,
> data-centric representation of a page.

ACK.  Probably because there are no pages.

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