On Aug 6, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Adam Klein <adamk@chromium.org> wrote: > Hixie opened my eyes last week to parser-association behavior of the > sort found at http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?saved=2428. > In that case, an <input> in a detached tree is associated with a > <form> in the main document. This causes badness in WebKit and Blink > because the association between the <form> and the <input> (e.g., as > exposed in the HTMLFormElement.elements collection) is only weakly > held to avoid reference loops (and thus memory leaks). And that > weakness occasionally results in crashes when one of these objects is > collected before the other. > > While all modern HTML parser implementations I tested seemed to agree > on their treatment of the above example (they all return "1" as > elements.length), this feature doesn't strike me as terribly useful. > And for what it's worth, it doesn't seem to be present in legacy IE. What is the behavior of the old IE? - R. NiwaReceived on Tuesday, 6 August 2013 23:09:31 UTC
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