On Sep 9, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Sean Hogan <shogu...@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On 10/09/11 3:21 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> It's a completely useless function. It just implements the equality
>> operator. I believe most languages have a equality operator already.
>> Except Brainfuck [1]. But the DOM isn't implementable in Brainfuck
>> anyway as it doesn't have objects, so I'm ok with that.
>>
>> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
>>
>> / Jonas
>>
>>
>
> If a DOM implementation returns node-wrappers instead of exposing the actual
> nodes then you could end up with different node-refs for the same node. I'm
> not sure whether that violates other requirements of the spec.
A similar method is present in the JS libs too, like jQuery. If it is
necessary, is a Node.isSameType useful?
