[whatwg] Node inDocument

Erik Arvidsson arv at chromium.org
Mon Aug 29 18:49:48 PDT 2011


Node inDocument seems cleaner but I'd be happy with contains moved to
Node so that Document could optimize this.

erik








On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 18:11, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi at gmx.net> wrote:
> * Erik Arvidsson wrote:
>>compareDocumentPosition is a terrible API but I guess there is nothing
>>preventing implementors to optimize the case where one node is the
>>document.
>
> There is a proprietary Element.contains method implemented by some. The
> method could be put on the Document interface in which case you could do
> `node.ownerDocument.contains(node)` which seems quite fair.
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