Re: [DOM4] Mutation algorithm imposed order on document children

On 6/14/12 1:31 PM, Elliott Sprehn wrote:
> Out of curiosity why does allowing extra elements complicate this? The
> root is document.documentElement and the doctype is document.doctype.
>
> Gecko actually traverses document.childNodes when doing layout?

No, but right now the only way for the root of the rendering tree to 
change is for the old one to be removed and the new one to be inserted 
after that.

If you allow multiple elements you have to deal with the situation where 
one element is removed and that suddenly magically requires CSS box 
construction for a different element that you have to find, etc.

It's all code, but it's more code.  ;)  The current setup Just Works 
with the code that has to be there anyway to handle basic remove/insert.

-Boris