There _is_ a language-agnostic API spec for the DOM; that's the whole point of the DOM specs. It's led to APIs that are a huge pain to use from any language (I

There _is_ a language-agnostic API spec for the DOM; that's the whole point of the DOM specs. It's led to APIs that are a huge pain to use from any language (I've tried it from C++, Java, and JavaScript).