DOMAssistant for Easier DOM Coding

Document Object Model is one of the most important components of an Ajax based application or website. Regular websites use HTML so that they could effectively render to the browser the information they want to impart. It is very simple and does not require a lot of footprint as long as the information is simple without any intensive graphics. This setting, of course changes whenever the website will import graphics and videos which will definitely slow information loading. Worst is that these graphics are usually based on an advertisement and they are in no way related to the information provided in the website.

This could be greatly changed with the use of JavaScript. This language as part of Ajax could refresh the important content without any changes on the advertisements. Or other parts of the webpage. But it needs a special component to do this. That is where DOM comes in.

Document Object Model has the ability to wrap a certain part of the webpage without affecting others. Through this, asynchronous stream of information is possible since it has the ability to separate itself from others as DOM wraps a certain part of the application.

DOM however, is one of the most challenging parts of JavaScript to be coded. Individual coders have to be proficient in JavaScript along with DOM which is independent with any development languages or framework.

That is where DOMassistant comes in. There are already components and tools that have been assisting developers in building an Ajax based application through frameworks, XML writer and other coding assistant. DOM is no different. Through DOMassitant, developers will now have the ability to easily code DOM and implement them in their website.

The aim of DOM is not to actually ease the development of the website but to primarily give the developers a chance to build websites that will not eat a lot of bandwidth as it is being developed. This gives the developers a chance to provide more functions and features to the online application while accepting the fact that other activities are running with the Ajax based application at the same time.

In gist, DOMassistant admits all elements first before any parameters are set. The CSS are then attached to these elements wherein they would have their controls and parameters set by the classes of Ajax. DOMassistant practically encapsulates all these functions through DOMassistant.

You might think that this is just a regular DOM with a few tweaks especially on the order of importance of parameters. This is true but DOMassistant does not end there. DOMassistant is a modular scripting tool for Ajax. That means even though thousands of lines or functions are wrapped in DOM, it would still be placed as one module.

Depending on the function of the application, they are gradually assigned into six different modules. What makes it so lightweight is that even though they are distributed into six groups, they are all under a single JavaScript file: domassistant.js. This is the core of the DOMassistant which wraps everything into a single lightweight component of the Ajax based application.