On May 15, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 5/15/11 2:20 PM, Rick Waldron wrote: >> Thanks Brendan, I was looking for something that was representative of >> Boris's use-case > > A typical example is an extension wanting to associate some state with a DOM > element or a Window without polluting the DOM. For example, Adblock Plus > wants to store some state per-element so that it knows when it's in the > middle of unblocking something so it'll allow the load through for that one > thing only. Firebug wants to store some state per-window (e.g. script > bodies, etc) and discard it when the window goes away. Which is a use case private names would achieve much more succinctly than weakmaps.
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