children method is partially broken for ie8

[mbj@…]

Children() is implemented by looping over nextSibling on firstChild.

In ie8 document.body.children and looping over nextSibling of document.body.firstChild does not consistently yield the same result, when there are dynamically injected elements, with document.body.children giving the correct list.

Caveat: It is not consistent behavior and can be hard to reproduce. Right now I can only reproduce it in a closed testing environment at my current clients, and I cannot share it, but thought I'd report it anyway

[timmywil]

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[mbj@…]

As already stated it is not consistent behavior and hard to reproduce. If i could reproduce it on jsfiddle you'd be the first to see it, alas i cannot.

[dmethvin]

We can't really do anything without a test case, sorry.