fix(jqLite): don't attach event handlers to comments or text nodes

We were attaching handlers to comment nodes when setting up bound transclusion
functions. But we don't clean up comments and text nodes when deallocating so
there was a memory leak.

Closes #7913
Closes #7942

Author: petebacondarwin

src/jqLite.js

@@ -161,6 +161,12 @@ function jqLiteIsTextNode(html) {
   return !HTML_REGEXP.test(html);
 }
 
+function jqLiteAcceptsData(node) {
+  // The window object can accept data but has no nodeType
+  // Otherwise we are only interested in elements (1) and documents (9)
+  return !node.nodeType || node.nodeType === 1 || node.nodeType === 9;
+}
+
 function jqLiteBuildFragment(html, context) {
   var elem, tmp, tag, wrap,
       fragment = context.createDocumentFragment(),
@@ -319,7 +325,7 @@ function jqLiteData(element, key, value) {
 
   if (isSetter) {
     // set data only on Elements and Documents
-    if (element.nodeType === 1 || element.nodeType === 9) {
+    if (jqLiteAcceptsData(element)) {
       data[key] = value;
     }
   } else {
@@ -754,6 +760,11 @@ forEach({
   on: function onFn(element, type, fn, unsupported){
     if (isDefined(unsupported)) throw jqLiteMinErr('onargs', 'jqLite#on() does not support the `selector` or `eventData` parameters');
 
+    // Do not add event handlers to non-elements because they will not be cleaned up.
+    if (!jqLiteAcceptsData(element)) {
+      return;
+    }
+
     var events = jqLiteExpandoStore(element, 'events'),
         handle = jqLiteExpandoStore(element, 'handle');
 

test/jqLiteSpec.js

@@ -993,6 +993,16 @@ describe('jqLite', function() {
       expect(log).toEqual('click on: A;click on: B;');
     });
 
+    it('should not bind to comment or text nodes', function() {
+      var nodes = jqLite('<!-- some comment -->Some text');
+      var someEventHandler = jasmine.createSpy('someEventHandler');
+
+      nodes.on('someEvent', someEventHandler);
+      nodes.triggerHandler('someEvent');
+
+      expect(someEventHandler).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+    });
+
     it('should bind to all events separated by space', function() {
       var elm = jqLite(a),
           callback = jasmine.createSpy('callback');