I don't know if this is what Darin (Adler) is referring to, but at one point I 
think there was a special weak pointer for Nodes to point back to their 
Document. This turned out to be the wrong design since for Web-compatible 
behavior you really want the document to stay alive while the node is alive.

 - Maciej

On Oct 12, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Darin Fisher wrote:

> Caused more harm than good?
> 
> -Darin
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com> wrote:
> Not sure it is relevant to this discussion, but WebKit had a weak pointer 
> class back in 2002 and I removed it.
> 
>    -- Darin
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