Travis Leithead

Travis works on the Microsoft Edge web platform, focusing on DOM APIs and their related standards. He helps coordinate standards engagement and serves as an elected member of the W3C’s technical architecture group where he primarily reviews proposals for new web standards.

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In the second installment of A List Apart’s four-part “From URL to Interactive” series, Travis Leithead, former editor of W3C’s HTML spec, walks us through the process of parsing HTML: from how browsers create trees to how the DOM responds to events. Equipped with this knowledge, you’ll be able to make smarter DOM decisions, reduce time to interactive, and eliminate unintended reflows.