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Bug 20608 - "suppress observers flag"
Summary: "suppress observers flag"
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DOM (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anne
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2013-01-08 22:22 UTC by Ore Landau
Modified: 2013-01-09 12:30 UTC (History)
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Description Ore Landau 2013-01-08 22:22:48 UTC 
http://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#mutation-algorithms

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"suppress observers flag" is mentioned 12 times in 5.2.1 Mutation algorithms.

No definition of this term is given in the scope of this document. What is it exactly? Is it defined elsewhere?
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Comment 1 Anne 2013-01-09 12:30:52 UTC 
It's just a parameter used by certain algorithms. We typically use flags to express a boolean.