Use per element determination of children vs childNodes, fixes #12488 !strict

git-svn-id: http://svn.dojotoolkit.org/src/dojo/trunk@25510 560b804f-0ae3-0310-86f3-f6aa0a117693

(cherry picked from commit fc262d0d589c490cdd671791f1546a4665ed69c6)
(cherry picked from commit c67ea3e7a6463c8d5479b0c88007cd2c0c86443c)
Updating metadata for 1.5.3
Fix Git revision not being correctly added to version object.

Refs #17176.
(cherry picked from commit 66608081c2077d12a9c6288201d107a86803a28c)

Conflicts:
	_base/_loader/bootstrap.js
Updating source version to 1.5.4-pre