[Bug 18729] [Custom]: instantiation algorithm omits creating shadow roots for custom base elements

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18729

--- Comment #4 from Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org> 2012-08-29 18:07:30 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (In reply to comment #1)
> > > Recursive shadow-dom creation requires information about the extendee.
> > > 
> > > The section 4 algorithm takes only 'prototype' and 'template' inputs and it's
> > > difficult to infer the extendee name from that input (it would require
> > > searching the custom element registry for matching prototypes).
> > > 
> > > For our polyfill implementation we attached 'extendsName' to 'prototype' to get
> > > around this problem.
> > 
> > Why not just use prototype.constructor?
> 
> I need to know if my prototype is derived from another custom element. I don't
> see how prototype.constructor helps me find that information?
> 
> I suppose 'prototype.__proto__.constructor' might be the constructor I'm
> looking for, but even then I need the Definition which contains the template
> and I have no map of constructors to Definitions. 

Doesn't the generated constructor already have this information? All we need to
do is call it, right?

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Received on Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:07:32 UTC