- From: Charles Pritchard <chuck@jumis.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 15:42:25 -0700
- To: Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Sep 9, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Sean Hogan <shogun70@westnet.com.au> wrote: > On 10/09/11 3:21 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> It's a completely useless function. It just implements the equality >> operator. I believe most languages have a equality operator already. >> Except Brainfuck [1]. But the DOM isn't implementable in Brainfuck >> anyway as it doesn't have objects, so I'm ok with that. >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck >> >> / Jonas >> >> > > If a DOM implementation returns node-wrappers instead of exposing the actual nodes then you could end up with different node-refs for the same node. I'm not sure whether that violates other requirements of the spec. A similar method is present in the JS libs too, like jQuery. If it is necessary, is a Node.isSameType useful?
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