Subj : Re: Sharing Javascript objects between different XUL windows.
To   : Peter Wilson
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon Jan 03 2005 01:49 pm

Peter Wilson wrote:
> I have made a discovery which may explain what is going on.
> 
> DOM3 has introduced a new function isSameNode(DOMNode) which returns 
> true for the two DOM elements in question even though === is not true.


Please continue to use the dom newsgroup for this, ok?


> Having been away for some while I may have missed a fundamental change 
> in the way Mozilla supports DOM processing internally. Previous 
> assumptions about object identity may not be valid.


If so, I note with alarm the bete noire of DOM hackers everywhere, lack 
of backward compatibility.

/be

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