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19th June 2009 - Link Blog

Unimpressed by NodeIterator. John Resig, one of the most talented API designers I’ve ever come across, posts some well earned criticism of the document.createNodeIterator DOM traversal API.

Posted 19th June 2009 at 9:53 pm

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