> the dom is in fact so successful (...) I'm not sure this means what you think it means. The DOM was standardized, and became ubiquitous. From thereon, peopl

> the dom is in fact so successful (...) I'm not sure this means what you think it means. The DOM was standardized, and became ubiquitous. From thereon, people built upon that not because it was great but because it was all there was. JavaScript is also all there is and was, and everyone agrees that it is everything but great. Even the inception of nodejs and demo is due to the fact that the infrastructure was already there. Being pervasive is not the same thing as being good or decent.