Re: Proposal for supporting Web Components and Shadow DOM

I'd be happy to if others feel this might be a good approach.  Simon,
Andreas, any reservations or thoughts?


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:03 AM, David Burns <dburns@mozilla.com> wrote:

>  Sorry for the late chime in.
>
> I would agree with Ken after looking at what our current proposal[1]
> creates! Just hanging it off WebElement and then searching from there with
> just a call to get all the shadow roots which returns a list of WebElements
> and element[<index>].find_element('<type>', '<identifier of node>').
>
> Marc and Ken, do you want to take a bash at updating the spec to contain
> what we have discussed here and uploading a patch to the W3C Bug[2] ?
>
> David
>
> [1]
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/selenium-developers/Dad2KZsXNKo
> [2]
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> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22987
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> On 20/08/2013 21:07, Ken Kania wrote:
>
> You understand correctly.  I thought most stuff would work fine since I
> think we allow the Document to be treated as a WebElement, but there might
> be some stuff that needs to be fixed or perhaps throw an error for.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Marc Fisher <fisherii@google.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>   They would be scoped based on the element id you give to search under
>>>
>>
>>  So the command to get the shadow roots from a WebElement would return a
>> list of WebElements? Shadow roots aren't actually HTML element objects, but
>> I suppose from the POV of WebDriver that that doesn't actually matter very
>> much. It does probably mean that most of the element/:elementId/...
>> commands will fail if the :elementId corresponds to a shadow root (or they
>> could be redirected to the owning HTML element I suppose).
>>
>>  I would be fine with this suggestion, assuming I understand it
>> correctly.
>>
>>  Marc
>>
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