I have seen sites that make this assumption. Even worked on one. From a website writer's view, the whitespace nodes are usually a pain, but if you add some hacks to skip around them (as ugly as that is), you expect those hacks to keep working.
trey On Jun 17, 2010, at 2:19 PM, David Hyatt wrote: > On Jun 17, 2010, at 2:45 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > >> David, it's bit more than annoying, it's fragmenting memory for no >> good. In the long run on systems will small memory it does make a >> difference :-/ >> >> I'd like to see some option, maybe compile-time, to strip these >> useless whitespaces. >> > > As Alexey points out, this is a compatibility issue though. People write > code assuming the whitespace nodes are there. If you remove them, you'll see > Web site breakage. > > dave > (hy...@apple.com) > > _______________________________________________ > 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
