DOM Levels, new to me

[one man army]

Hi All-
Having started on this Javascript endeavor, and reading the posts here
a bit, I found the DOM inspector in my Mozilla browser (Mozilla/5.0
Gecko/20030624). Whoa!

here is a trivial window inspected, expanded strategically:

http://www.screenlight.com/down/DOM.gif

(Not easy to extract, btw. Sorry for the non-text format)

Q. How much of this can I reasonably expect to learn and query in my
generally working Javascript/ECMA? in other words, given browser wars,
lagging standards, INCOMPLETE DOM Ref on Mozilla Dev, etc., how do I
approach this daunting level of detail?

Perhaps this is rhetorical, or someone has a suggestion. I am reeling
in information overload!

thanks for any sage words

 

[David Dorward]

Having started on this Javascript endeavor, and reading the posts here
a bit, I found the DOM inspector in my Mozilla browser (Mozilla/5.0
Gecko/20030624). Whoa!

Q. How much of this can I reasonably expect to learn and query in my
generally working Javascript/ECMA? in other words, given browser wars,
lagging standards, INCOMPLETE DOM Ref on Mozilla Dev, etc., how do I
approach this daunting level of detail?

The standards are reasonable places to start

http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/

 

[Gérard Talbot]

one man army a écrit :

Hi All-
Having started on this Javascript endeavor, and reading the posts here
a bit, I found the DOM inspector in my Mozilla browser (Mozilla/5.0
Gecko/20030624). Whoa!

here is a trivial window inspected, expanded strategically:

http://www.screenlight.com/down/DOM.gif

(Not easy to extract, btw. Sorry for the non-text format)

Q. How much of this can I reasonably expect to learn and query in my
generally working Javascript/ECMA? in other words, given browser wars,
lagging standards, INCOMPLETE DOM Ref on Mozilla Dev, etc., how do I
approach this daunting level of detail?

Perhaps this is rhetorical, or someone has a suggestion. I am reeling
in information overload!

thanks for any sage words

On top of what David wrote you, I'd add these 2 documents:

Whitespace in the DOM (important document)
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/technote/whitespace/

DevEdge Netscape Sidebar Tabs (very useful: I use those all the time)
http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/toolbox/sidebars/

Gérard