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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by pier25 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @03:24PM (#15093189)
Accessing the DOM is not really part of the language specification, but the browser API, no?
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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by thehardsphere on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:16PM (#15093677)
And the "Browser API" was invented to do what, exactly? And by what mechanism was said API exposed to developers? And whose cocktail napkin was the specification written on?
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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World by coldtea on Thursday August 24, 2017 @05:23PM (#15094179)
>And the "Browser API" was invented to do what, exactly?

Whatever it was inveted to do is totally irrelevant, as the "browser API" is not Javascript the language/syntax but just an API (library/module).

In fact you could trivially implement it in all kinds of programming languages.

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