The Web Standards Project, or WaSP, on Monday launched the DOM 
Scripting Task Force, whose goal will be to promote adherence 
to Web standards like the World Wide Web Consortium's Document 
Object Model and to establish guidelines in the comparatively 
unstandardized world of scripting.

In founding the task force, the WaSP described today's Web 
programming model as a three-legged stool, one leg being structure 
(XHTML), another presentation (Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS), 
the last behavior (DOM scripting).

The group identified "obtrusive" DOM scripting as the reason for 
scripts' bad repuation.