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Matt Frisbie
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Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.
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The DOM Level 2 specifications define several modules that augment the functionality of DOM Level 1. DOM Level 2 Core introduces several new methods related to XML namespaces on various DOM types. These changes are relevant only when used in XML or XHTML documents; they have no use in HTML documents. Methods not related to XML namespaces include the ability to programmatically create new instances of Document and to enable the creation of DocumentType objects.

The DOM Level 2 Style module specifies how to interact with stylistic information about elements as follows:

  • Every element has a style object associated with it that can be used to determine and change inline styles.
  • To determine the computed style of an element, including all CSS rules that apply to it, you can use a method called getComputedStyle().
  • It's also possible to access style sheets via the document.styleSheets collection.

The DOM Level 2 Traversals and Range module specifies different ways to interact with...

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Matt Frisbie

Matt Frisbie has worked in web development for over a decade. During that time, he's been a startup co-founder, an engineer at a Big Four tech company, and the first engineer at a Y Combinator startup that would eventually become a billion-dollar company. As a Google software engineer, Matt worked on both the AdSense and Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) platforms; his code contributions run on most of the planet's web browsing devices. Prior to this, Matt was the first engineer at DoorDash, where he helped lay the foundation for a company that has become the leader in online food delivery. Matt has written two books and recorded two video series for O'Reilly and Packt, speaks at frontend meetups and web casts, and is a level 1 sommelier. He majored in Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Matt's Twitter handle is @mattfriz.
Read more about Matt Frisbie