W3C Approves DOM Level 2

Posted by timothy on Friday January 10, 2003 @08:41AM from the next-is-the-decon-level dept.

techsoldaten writes "Web developers rejoice! W3C announced yesterday the DOM Level 2 specification has become a full recommendation. Article about it on Infoworld. The payoff for Web developers, once this recommendation has been incorporated into browsers, is cross-browser DOM scripting should become a thing of the past and XHTML will be available as a means of handling some data-related tasks within a Web page. One hole in the silver lining: the specification is not backwards compatible with DOM Level 1."

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that's great by Kanasta · 2003-01-10 21:40 · Score: 3, Informative

instead of having one case for each browser that exists, we first have to check which version were using and then have one case for each browser that exists

it's no longer about waiting for everybody to support the standard, now it's about waiting for everybody to drop support for the old standard, which takes much longer