Yeah don't worry about it. Your use case works fine, its the way IE handles event observers that has the memory leak. Other browsers its fine and as noted, prototype handles this IE anomaly under the covers for you so you're good.
On Oct 6, 1:57 pm, Ngan Pham <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Prototype & script.aculo.us" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/prototype-scriptaculous?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
