Thanks for the reply.
I do understand that "Just because an element has been detached from the
visible DOM doesn't
mean that the reference can be maintained elsewhere." I just assumed that
once it is detached, and the object isn't referenced
anywhere else in the code that it would be collected by garbage collection,
just like any other variable:
function test() {
var i = 0;
var j = $('some-element').remove();
}
it's my thinking that after test() has finished running, that both i and j
would be picked up by garbage collection. is this not true?
So, what you're saying, to answer my question, is that I don't have to worry
about using Event#stopObserving?
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Matt Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The removed element?
>
> Just because an element has been detached from the visible DOM doesn't
> mean that the reference can be maintained elsewhere. It would be no
> edge case to detach and re-attach a particular element, so to think
> that an element should be trashed just because it has no parent node
> is a bad perception.
>
> Prototype has accomodations for IE's poor garbage collection tactics
> and has a cleanup method for this that gets handled transparently to
> you.
>
> --
>
> http://positionabsolute.net
>
> On Oct 6, 12:05 pm, Ngan Pham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> > I have a quick question. If put some Event#observe on an element...and
> then
> > later remove the element with Element#remove, do I have to do
> > Event#stopObserving? Or do the event detach themselves once garbage
> > collection picks up the removed element?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
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