Wasn't the memory leak issue IE<=6 only? I thought that was fixed in 7. 
That is a fairly big portion of compatibility code, half the library 
uses less efficient techniques to avoid memory leaks.

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Andrea Giammarchi wrote:
> Diego,
> it's just about pushing "from inside" to remove that obsolete browser from
> the web.
> John already explained the fact that IE6 tricks are almost the same (Sizzle
> as well?)
>
> Anyway, it was just a try :-)
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Diego Perini <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>   
>> Andrea,
>> dropping support for IE6 will not help reduce the code in any way. The
>> same part of code is still needed in both IE7 and IE8.
>>
>> What are the advantages in only have support for IE7 and IE8 ?
>>
>> Diego
>>     
>
> >
>
>   

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