165739 - DOM ref "what is gecko" paragraph ends abruptly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Description

[David Tenser [:djst]]

"What is Gecko?

Netscape 6.1, Mozilla, and other Mozilla-based browsers have identical
implementations of the DOM. This is so because they use the same technology.

Gecko, the software component in these browsers that handles the parsing of the
HTML, the layout of the pages, the document object model, and even the rendering
of the entire application interface, is a fast, standards-compliant rendering
engine that implements the W3C DOM standards and the DOM-like (but not
standardized) browser object model (i.e., window et al) in the context of web
pages and the application interface, or chrome, of the browser.

Though the application interface and the content displayed by the browser are
different in many practical ways, the DOM exposes them uniformly as a hierarchy
of nodes. The tree structure of the DOM (which in its application to the user"

And that's the end of it!

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing text author

Comment 2

[David Tenser [:djst]]

He must have lots of things to do. :)

Comment 3

[David Tenser [:djst]]

I actually think it's quite embarrassing that this bug isn't fixed already.

After all, this is the Gecko DOM Reference.

Comment 4

[Daniel Wang]

-> Ian

Comment 5

[David Tenser [:djst]]

I'm taking this myself.

Comment 6

[David Tenser [:djst]]

-> FIXED.

I commented the unfinished sentence out and I'll leave it to the original author
to complete the document later, if needed.