Re: [w3c/webcomponents] Generic programs can't reliably use/manipulate documents via the DOM (#640) from Dylan Barrell on 2017-05-08 (public-webapps-github@w3.org from May 2017)

From: Dylan Barrell <notifications@github.com>
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 11:20:08 -0700
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> If the DOM is supposed to be an effective API for developers other than document/component authors, then closed shadow DOMs are directly harmful. I propose depreciating mode and dropping closed shadow DOMs completely.

I think this statement is too generic. Closed shadow DOM is VERY useful in protecting the author from the internals of standard HTML elements but harmful otherwise.

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