Re: State of the AJAX Union

On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Stefan Seifert wrote:
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> I too thought about that. Maybe using the JavaScript or
> JavaScript::Spidermonkey module and XML::DOM. I will certainly
> experiment around with them, as we need it at work. Doesn't seem to be

Sigh, we've had this same little discussion at least five times here.

The browser object model is not the XML DOM.  It is the HTML DOM (which is 
ill-defined in practice, and is not really a superset of the XML DOM), 
plus other stuff.  There is currently no implementation of it outside of 
browsers.  Plus you have to build the damned DOM in the first place :-)


> too hard to me, but of course, I'm underestimating that :)

Yes.

As I've said many times before here, getting something working is not too 
hard, getting something useful is harder (how much depends on the 
audience, I guess), getting something good is a lot of work.  Maybe this 
is universally true, but especially so of JS support for LWP :-)


John