The Evolution and Challenges of HTML and the DOM in Modern Web Development
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9mo ago· 13 min readenInsight
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Summary
The article discusses the evolving nature of HTML and the DOM, highlighting the increasing complexity and legacy issues within web development. It notes the blurred lines between properties and methods in the DOM, the growing size of the DOM, and how developers are increasingly avoiding direct DOM manipulation. The piece suggests a need to rethink the DOM from first principles.
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The DOM is not lean and continues to get fatter. Whether you notice this largely depends on whether you are making web pages or web applications.
Most devs now avoid working with the DOM directly.
Rethinking DOM from first principles
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