Talk:Document Object Model: Difference between revisions

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I've just found this again, having forgotten it for a few months. I see neither of us actually did much in the end at the time. I've just reverted an edit by {{user|TheBoothy}}. I'll explain why in steps as it's all pretty relevant to what we were saying above.

*'Web browsers '''usually''' use an internal model similar to the DOM' - there is no reason why they have to, internally, as long as they fulfil the DOM's interface when scripts make calls on it.

*'...and to inspect or modify a Web page using JavaScript code' Browsers don't 'inspect or modify' a Web page using JavaScript. The JavaScript is external to the browser, written by a web developer as part of some webpage, and ''it'' inspectsmay (depending on the developer's intentions) inspect (or modifiesquery, or read, or view) or modify (or alter, or add to, or delete part of) the page's DOM.

*When we say 'JavaScript sees...', that isn't sloppy English for 'JavaScript inspects...'. The script 'sees' the page via its [[interface (Computingcomputing)]]; that is good technical grammar, whether it is querying the page structure, or altering it. It is not, ''per se'' an inspector of things.

I hope this will be clearer when somebody has a good go at writing a proper clear explanation. --[[User:Nigelj|Nigelj]] ([[User talk:Nigelj|talk]]) 00:15, 18 March 2012 (UTC)