[whatwg] Node inDocument

Anne van Kesteren annevk at opera.com
Tue Aug 30 01:44:08 PDT 2011


On Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:38:19 +0200, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> In general I think it's better to have functions that deal with child
> lists on Node rather than on Element/Document/DocumentFragment.
>
> I think it might still make sense to have inDocument though. That'll
> allow people to more clearly express what they are actually trying to
> do, while allowing implementations to write faster code.

If we are going to have Node.contains implementations surely could  
optimize document.contains(node) which seems as clear as node.inDocument  
to me.


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