Re: [w3c/webcomponents] Closed flag proposal breaks ability to audit and automate tests of web pages (#354)

@hayatoito For better or for worse, I've opened #640, which tries to generalise the idea here. Hopefully the inclusion of the following might prompt some different discussion:

> Closed shadow DOMs may (or may not) be fine for document authors, who make the decision to use code including them. However, their existence and use makes the DOM an unreliable API for programs, libraries, etc. that are made to act upon a document by the user or document author.
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> If the DOM is supposed to be an effective API for developers other than document/component authors, then closed shadow DOMs are directly harmful. ...

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