Talk:Document Object Model: Difference between revisions

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::Here: "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), founded in 1994 to promote open standards for the World Wide Web, brought Netscape Communications and Microsoft together with other companies to develop a standard for browser scripting languages, called "ECMAScript"." The way it's worded it sounds to me like the article is suggesting that W3C created ECMAScript the language. [[Special:Contributions/108.28.51.60|108.28.51.60]] ([[User talk:108.28.51.60|talk]]) 02:35, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

:::Ah, I see. Are you saying that that sentence should end, "...a standard for browser scripting languages, which is now called "ECMAScript""? Or should the surgery go deeper, to completely separate the development of the DOM from that of the language? What do others think? --[[User:Nigelj|Nigelj]] ([[User talk:Nigelj|talk]]) 08:58, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

== Layout Engines ==

"Web browsers rely on layout engines to parse HTML into a DOM" - this sounds incorrect (or possibly incorrect, depending on browser). Most modern browsers rely on a specific HTML parser to parse HTML into a DOM; the "layout engine" then creates the render tree from the DOM (to style/position elements for on-screen painting), but it doesn't parse the HTML into the DOM (or may not, depending on the browser).