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Created January 13, 2012 07:09
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DOM MutationEvent Feature Detection
var mutations = (function (document) {
// (C) WebReflection - Mit Style License
var
type = [
"DOMSubtreeModified",
"DOMNodeInserted",
"DOMNodeRemoved",
"DOMNodeRemovedFromDocument",
"DOMNodeInsertedIntoDocument",
"DOMAttrModified",
"DOMCharacterDataModified"
],
documentElement = document.documentElement,
method = "EventListener",
data = "deleteData",
p = document.createElement("p"),
mutations = {},
i
;
function check(addOrRemove) {
for (i = type.length; i--;) {
p[addOrRemove](type[i], cb, false);
documentElement[addOrRemove](type[i], cb, false);
}
}
function cb(e) {
mutations[e.type] = true;
}
check("add" + method);
documentElement.insertBefore(
p,
documentElement.lastChild
);
p.setAttribute("i", i);
p = p.appendChild(document.createTextNode(i));
data in p && p[data](0, 1);
documentElement.removeChild(p = p.parentNode);
check("remove" + method);
return (p = mutations);
}(document));
// exmple
// alert(Object.keys(mutations).join("\n"));
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