Re[9]: [Dynapi-Dev] Attention...

[Stephan Tolksdorf]

> If I'm not mistaken you are using ns4/Linux. As other platforms don't have
> this problem as far as I know.

No this is a general problem of NS4.
Please read
http://www.mail-archive.com/dynapi-dev%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg03569.html
(and the revised fix I posted Saturday which is roughly equivalent to
yours)

> the reason we need the line "delete c " at all (apart from it being good
> style)

Emulating manual memory management in a language with automatic memory
management isn't good style but a hack (a hack that is needed due to
the bad memory handling of current browsers).

> was in the fight against memory leaks in IE5/win

> if(!(is.ns4&&is.platform=='other')) delete c;

Could someone please give an example or better explain why IE makes a
difference in memory handling between delete c and c = null.

Stephan Tolksdorf


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