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Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web response
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03/14/2006, By Brett McLaughlin
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The great divide between programmers (who work with back-end applications) and Web programmers (who spend their time writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is long standing. However, the Document Object Model (DOM) bridges the chasm and makes working with both XML on the back end and HTML on the front end possible and an effective tool. In this article, Brett McLaughlin introduces the Document Object Model, explains its use in Web pages, and starts to explore its usage from JavaScript.
For most programmers, their job ends where the Web browser begins. In other words, once you drop a file of HTML into a directory on your Web server, you usually file it away as "done" and (hopefully) never really think about it again! That's a great goal when it comes to writing clean, well-organized pages, too; there's nothing wrong with wanting your markup to display what it should, across browsers, with various versions of CSS and JavaScript.
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