[webkit-dev] Why so many text nodes in the DOM? (especially ones with just whitespace)

[Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri]

David, it's bit more than annoying, it's fragmenting memory for no
good. In the long run on systems will small memory it does make a
difference :-/

I'd like to see some option, maybe compile-time, to strip these
useless whitespaces.

BR,

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:51 PM, David Hyatt <hyatt at apple.com> wrote:
> Although it's annoying that these extra whitespace nodes are in the DOM, we do at least make sure not to create renderers for them most of the time.
>
> dave
>
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 1:37 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov wrote:
>
>>
>> 17.06.2010, в 9:53, Andreas Delmelle написал(а):
>>
>>> If WebKit chooses, for example, to ignore character events from the parser in nodes where logically it doesn't make sense to have stray characters
>>
>>
>> That would break e.g. Web sites where JS accesses DOM in ways such as node.firstChild.nextSibling, or node.childNodes[3]. We've previously seen similar breakage happen after changing WebCore parsing code.
>>
>> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
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