Re: Adopting a Custom Element into Another Document

> On Jan 13, 2015, at 11:43 AM, Domenic Denicola <d@domenic.me> wrote:
> 
> I imagine this has all been discussed before, but why do __proto__-munging when adopting cross document? That seems bizarre, and causes exactly these problems. When you put an object in a Map from another realm, it doesn't __proto__-munge it to that other realm's Object.prototype. Why is the tree data structure embodied by the DOM any different?

Indeed, it's strange that we only do this for DOM nodes.

Furthermore, copying a custom element's class definition into the destination document without leaking the source document's global object is hard since methods of the class may capture the global object.  We need to do something inelegant like re-loading the script in the destination.

- R. Niwa

Received on Wednesday, 14 January 2015 01:26:32 UTC