<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>I don't know if this is what Darin (Adler) is referring to, but at one point I think there was a special weak pointer for Nodes to point back to their Document. This turned out to be the wrong design since for Web-compatible behavior you really want the document to stay alive while the node is alive.<div><br></div><div> - Maciej<br><div><br><div><div>On Oct 12, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Darin Fisher wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Caused more harm than good?<div><br></div><div>-Darin</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Darin Adler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darin@apple.com">darin@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Not sure it is relevant to this discussion, but WebKit had a weak pointer class back in 2002 and I removed it.<br>
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