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| Message-ID | <1877538.4En7Rhr0HQ@PointedEars.de> (permalink) |
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| From | Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> |
| Organization | PointedEars Software (PES) |
| Date | 2014-01-26 19:43 +0100 |
| Subject | Re: JavaScript unfairly blamed? |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.javascript |
| References | <DOM-20140126091248@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> <droleary-A8DAA1.11260426012014@news.eternal-september.org> |
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. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.
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Re: JavaScript unfairly blamed? Doc O'Leary <droleary@8usenet2013.subsume.com> - 2014-01-26 11:26 -0600 Re: JavaScript unfairly blamed? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-26 19:43 +0100
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