154166 - CompareTreePosition: Can nodes in a fragment be following/preceding?

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Give jst a pipe.
2. Listen to him tell you how nodes in a fragment don't get following/preceding
flags.
3. Implement compareTreePosition() based on that assumption.

Actual results:
- Jst retracts his original statement and now says that he believes that nodes
in a fragment can get following/preceding flags.

Expected results:
- Jst should have shared the pipe so I'd also be high when I heard him and would
have implemented the opposite of what he initially said.  ;-)


So... :-)

Before I change this behavior, we should decide once and for all what the
behavior really should be.  I'm going to leave the behavior alone for now, so as
to avoid having to change it back if the DOM IG decides to keep that behavior.

I will create a patch once we do decide to go with the fact that nodes in a
fragment can recieve the following/preceding flags.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

:-)

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Yes, they can.  This will be fixed along with bug 177328.

Comment 3

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

Fixed by way of bug 177328.