[OpenLayers-Trac] [OpenLayers] #1123: OpenLayers.Layer.Markers.destroy() should destroy its markers

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#1123: OpenLayers.Layer.Markers.destroy() should destroy its markers
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  Reporter:  ahocevar       |       Owner:  euzuro     
      Type:  bug            |      Status:  new        
  Priority:  minor          |   Milestone:  2.6 Release
 Component:  Layer.Markers  |     Version:  2.5        
Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  review     
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Comment (by crschmidt):

 The problem is that the markers internally have a reference to their div,
 which means that the markers themselves aren't garbage collected, because
 references across the DOM/JS line don't get properly cleaned up for
 markers that the user doesn't manually destroy() first.

 However, this does mean (if the email you're talking about is correct)
 that we should apply this to the *text* layer, since the text layer
 actually creates the markers, and therefore should also be destroying
 them. (I'm still not convinced we should be doing it for the markers
 layer.)

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1123#comment:5>
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