Re: XBL2: First Thoughts and Use Cases

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> On 12/14/10 11:03 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>
>> Script should be able to walk and mutate
>> the shadow DOM for an element
>
> I'm not sure I agree, in fact.  Why should script be able to do this? Sorta
> supporting this has been a constant source of problems in Mozilla' XBL1
> implementation, and significantly increases the complexity of correct
> implementations (which Mozilla's XBL1 is not).  Why is this needed?

This is interesting. Can you give an example? I am wondering if you
and Tab are talking about the same thing. What sorts of problems?

>
> -Boris
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 December 2010 19:17:20 UTC