asudoh/dojox_mvc — comment on commit 7eb550c2a22abc823c6b26016e2a37559b902e9b
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By asudoh:

Hi Ed, the thought is that controllers can be used in a context of non-widget. Probably checking for this._applyAttributes (it means that the controller is used with a widget) in addition to srcNodeRef (it means that the controller may be used with DOM) check may better address such concern.