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Ok, so what's the point? I'm not trying to be a naysayer. I'm honestly asking. Is this trying to get us to look at different DOM structures to make us aware of
by drewcoo 14y ago
Ok, so what's the point? I'm not trying to be a naysayer. I'm honestly asking.
Is this trying to get us to look at different DOM structures to make us aware of the differences? Are there some things that are clearly good/bad that we should be aware of? Is this just to raise awareness of . . . something? I have no idea.
This seems like a solution in search of a problem. I strongly suspect that there is some hidden intent that I just don't grok. Because I'm an optimist.
(I realized after posting that I was snarky. I'm not removing the snark 'cause I should own up to it but this is an admission that I was probably a jerk. Sorry.)
- breck 14y agoYou're exactly right. There's not much of a point. I'm working on a new HTML template language and wanted to "see" what existing web pages look like to better inform our design. It's been very helpful for that. Then I wanted to see if web pages have gotten more complicated over the years, so I added the Wayback feature. In terms of # of DOM elements and levels, it appears the answer is no, which surprised me. Anyway, I thought it was interesting, even if it doesn't clearly solve a common problem. Would be curious to hear if people find it useful for other reasons.