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

[Matt 'Murph' Finnicum]

Is there a good way to tell which ones will affect rendering?

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:51 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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