Re: [XBL] Accessing flattened tree parents of a shadow tree

Ian Hickson:
> While I understand that you think you want to do this, you haven't yet 
> provided a real use case, nor explained why the solution I gave in:
> 
>    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2007Feb/0068.html
> 
> ...doesn't address this.

Why was the use case I gave not “real”?  It seems reasonable to me.  The
solution you gave doesn’t address this because the containing bound
element may not be under my control (it was written by someone else) and
thus may not implement .nearestViewportElement itself.

> I have, however, marked this as a formal objection, so you can be assured 
> that the director will give it at least as much attention as he gave the 
> many formal objections I and others raised on SVG Tiny 1.2.

Ok.

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Received on Thursday, 15 February 2007 00:59:45 UTC