Whitespace nodes most commonly occur between elements, so they can't be coalesced.
dave On Jun 14, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Matt 'Murph' Finnicum wrote: > Why are there so many Text nodes in the DOM? I had a look at the initial DOM > tree from rendering slashdot, and there are 1959 Text nodes. Of those 1959, > 1246 were whitespace-only nodes. > > Does there need to be this many nodes? Why can't whitespace be combined with > the nodes next to it? > > Thanks, > --Murph > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
