Subj : Re: How can JS intercept relayout calls?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.layout,netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Geoff
Date : Tue Dec 21 2004 04:50 pm

Neil Deakin <ndeakin@sympatico.ca> wrote in
news:cq9imu$bt62@ripley.netscape.com: 


> In fact, the 'DOM group" should tell you to file a bug in bugzilla.

Is it a bug?  I thought it was just something I didn't know, rather than 
something that was broken.

> They might also tell you that the JavaScript engine knows absolutely 
> nothing about events, layout or html and that n.p.m.jseng is the wrong
> newsgroup. The JS Engine handles only the parsing and execution of 
> script. Layout is handled by separate components.

It looks like I'm just going to get in a cycle of "no, don't ask us, ask 
/them/".  The DOM folks can say that it's not their issue since there's no 
DOM event that will do what I need.  The Layout folks can do just the 
opposite what's happening here and say they only deal with layout, not the 
Javascript side of things.

Nonetheless, there's somewhere the JS Engine and the Layout engine meet, 
and that's the bit I wanted to find out about.

But I think I'll give up before I annoy even more people.  I'll stick with 
things being broken in Mozilla because that's easier than trying to find 
out how to fix it.

Geoff

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