The whole idea of representing UI interactions by changes to a document model is absurd.
Citations needed. Works on my & most machines.
The protesting against the DOM is so endless, but golly gee willikers it sure looks a heckuva lot like a Android Layout xml or any of a hundred other widget tree systems. It's a tree of stuff, like every other UI paradigm. All in all, the DOM makes incredibly little impact, one way or another, on UI design. But heavens is it amazing for the user that there is a declarative document, that there is a common interchange, & not just gooping mounds of code that resist user scripting & user agency.
DOM is a pretty powerful flexible system that, frankly, does much better & has a much harder job than native apps. Native apps rarely do a good job supporting a variety of sizes/zooms, are minimally reactive, where-as the web is incredibly flexible.
Then it all went in the garbage because it all had to go "on the web".
Citation needed. Did it?
What other UI systems give users any where as much agency or power? What alternate systems give users any agency or power? Or to your bias, what was the halycon wonderful UI world developers frolicked in before?
I feel like the negative voices on this are extremely persistent, but it's entirely unclear to me what UI paradigm is in any way even in the least bit better. They all seem a bit like soupy messes. None of them are remotely good for culture & society at large except the DOM, for none of them are live & learnable & malleable & userscriptable. Which are better for developers seems to be the only question of the anti-DOM world, and there are, best I can tell, zero highly attractive targets we should go flock to. UIs just are a bit of a mess, especially ad complexity builds.
I also think folks highly underrate the slow but steady trickle of major major companies moving to WebComponents & having great success. GitHub, YouTube, maybe next reddit. The web is such a malleable architecture, the DOM is such a multi-paradigm. Trying to find your groove is not seamless & easy for all. Some people see that as a weakness, but it's a characteristic of an appropriately post modern[1] mode of developement, to have great capabilities & not be shoehorned into a tiny singular path.
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Citations needed. Works on my & most machines.
The protesting against the DOM is so endless, but golly gee willikers it sure looks a heckuva lot like a Android Layout xml or any of a hundred other widget tree systems. It's a tree of stuff, like every other UI paradigm. All in all, the DOM makes incredibly little impact, one way or another, on UI design. But heavens is it amazing for the user that there is a declarative document, that there is a common interchange, & not just gooping mounds of code that resist user scripting & user agency.
DOM is a pretty powerful flexible system that, frankly, does much better & has a much harder job than native apps. Native apps rarely do a good job supporting a variety of sizes/zooms, are minimally reactive, where-as the web is incredibly flexible.
Citation needed. Did it?
What other UI systems give users any where as much agency or power? What alternate systems give users any agency or power? Or to your bias, what was the halycon wonderful UI world developers frolicked in before?
I feel like the negative voices on this are extremely persistent, but it's entirely unclear to me what UI paradigm is in any way even in the least bit better. They all seem a bit like soupy messes. None of them are remotely good for culture & society at large except the DOM, for none of them are live & learnable & malleable & userscriptable. Which are better for developers seems to be the only question of the anti-DOM world, and there are, best I can tell, zero highly attractive targets we should go flock to. UIs just are a bit of a mess, especially ad complexity builds.
I also think folks highly underrate the slow but steady trickle of major major companies moving to WebComponents & having great success. GitHub, YouTube, maybe next reddit. The web is such a malleable architecture, the DOM is such a multi-paradigm. Trying to find your groove is not seamless & easy for all. Some people see that as a weakness, but it's a characteristic of an appropriately post modern[1] mode of developement, to have great capabilities & not be shoehorned into a tiny singular path.
[1] http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html