[whatwg] Node inDocument

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Mon Aug 29 17:21:30 PDT 2011


* Erik Arvidsson wrote:
>As we were looking at mutation events we realized that we would like
>to expose whether a Node is in the document or not. Both WebKit and
>Gecko have an O(1) way of determine this. Today, to do this in script
>this is O(depth) which is clearly sub optimal.
>
>We are therefore suggesting adding the following to Node idl:
>
>readonly attribute boolean inDocument;

This is addressed by Node.compareDocumentPosition. Have you missed this
or is there some problem making that perform properly?
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