Re: [DOM4] Remove Node.isSameNode

On Fri, 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
>
> 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.

I would expect that to violate the DOM spec. I.e. I would say that if
an implementation returned true for

someNode.firstChild != someNode.firstChild

then I would say that that that shouldn't be allowed by the DOM.

/ Jonas

Received on Saturday, 10 September 2011 01:01:23 UTC