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by scott_karana 4070 days ago
Not necessarily... just like how another poster mention's Tumblr's use of empty divs to keep the scrollbar position happy without sucking up resources, couldn't mixed-resource divs be replaced with text-only divs? Then search works fine, and memory still doesn't balloon (much).

Eg:

  <div>Cool meme: <embed>...</embed><img></img></div>
Goes to:

  <div>Cool meme:</div>
Even more work in implementation, admittedly. ;)