Re: Re: DOM

On Thursday 26 July 2007, Man-wai Chang wrote: > > Does Web 2.0 or maybe 3.0 offer some new <input> types, say something > > like a real grid, or maybe a modal child popup? > > Java is just a specialized DOM... in my opinion. Java has absolutely nothing to do with the subject at hand. Java is a compiled bytecode language. DOM is a language-agnostic API for managing tree-based data structure. I suspect you're referring to Javascript, which has even less to do with Java than PHP does. Javascript is also not a specialized language-agnostic API. Javascript is a fully capable and quite powerful semi-functional language in its own right (semi-functional meaning you can do functional programming in it, not that it only sort-of works <g>). It is very frequently used for manipulating the DOM of an HTML page in a browser, but that is by no means its only ability any more than PHP is just a specialized HTML. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson