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Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements?

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements?
Date 2015-05-16 18:12 +0200
Organization PointedEars Software (PES)
Message-ID <8185458.TY0rIKgSsa@PointedEars.de> (permalink)
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Leonardo Azpurua wrote:

> "Stefan Ram" […]
>> "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> writes:
>>> […] do most "modern" browsers (say FireFox, Chrome, IE9+, Opera, Safari)
                                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> automatically handle all the cleanup of a disposed element (detaching 
>>> event handlers, freeing graphical resources, deallocating memory, etc) 
>>> for all the elemets inside a disposed control, or is it necessary to 
>>> provide a function to handle all of it explicitly?
>>
>>  The garbage collectors should take care of JavaScript objects and of
>>  DOM objects. But some collectors cannot clean up in all situations.
>>  To be on the safe side:
>>
>> - avoid circular references between JavaScript objects and DOM objects
>> - avoid using closure variables in event handlers
>> - avoid using inline event handlers (onclick='f()')
>> - avoid using expando properties
>> - nullify expando properties and DOM references when not needed anymore
> 
> Nice!

And wrong.

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Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2015-05-16 11:14 -0430
  Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-16 17:44 +0200
    Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2015-05-16 11:32 -0430
      Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-16 18:06 +0200
  Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? "Leonardo Azpurua" <leonardo@exmvps.org> - 2015-05-16 11:42 -0430
    Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-16 18:12 +0200
  Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-16 18:09 +0200
    Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-05-16 22:05 -0300
      Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-17 08:01 +0200
        Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-05-17 13:29 -0300
          Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-05-17 19:06 +0200
      Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2015-05-17 11:53 +0200
        Re: Is it necessary to explicitly destroy elements? Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com.br> - 2015-05-17 13:20 -0300

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