CHAPTER 10The Standard Document Object Model
In Chapter 9, we presented the various object models supported by the two major browsers. These object models included objects for the window, documents, forms, images, and so on. We pointed out that these objects correspond to the features of the browser as well as to the features of the HTML document and style sheets. A significant early problem with browser-based object models is that each vendor decides which features to expose to the programmer and how to do so. Fortunately, today this isn’t so much of a problem because the W3C came up with a standard that maps between an HTML or XML document and the document object hierarchy presented to the programmer. This model is called the Document Object ...
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