Re: Proposal for supporting Web Components and Shadow DOM

Ken,

Can you write it and we can then discuss it in the bug since it will 
need a review?

David

On 05/09/2013 18:24, Ken Kania wrote:
> ping Simon, Andreas
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> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ken Kania <kkania@google.com 
> <mailto:kkania@google.com>> wrote:
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>     I'd be happy to if others feel this might be a good approach.
>      Simon, Andreas, any reservations or thoughts?
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>     On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:03 AM, David Burns <dburns@mozilla.com
>     <mailto:dburns@mozilla.com>> wrote:
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>         Sorry for the late chime in.
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>         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>').
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>         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] ?
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>         David
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>         [1]
>         https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/selenium-developers/Dad2KZsXNKo
>         <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/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.
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>>         On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Marc Fisher
>>         <fisherii@google.com <mailto:fisherii@google.com>> wrote:
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>>                 They would be scoped based on the element id you give
>>                 to search under
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>>             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).
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>>             I would be fine with this suggestion, assuming I
>>             understand it correctly.
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>>             Marc
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