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Re: XBL2: First Thoughts and Use Cases

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:14:24 -0800
Message-ID: <4D07C210.3080006@mit.edu>
To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
CC: robert@ocallahan.org, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org> 
On 12/14/10 11:03 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Script should be able to walk and mutate
> the shadow DOM for an element

I'm not sure I agree, in fact.  Why should script be able to do this? 
Sorta supporting this has been a constant source of problems in Mozilla' 
XBL1 implementation, and significantly increases the complexity of 
correct implementations (which Mozilla's XBL1 is not).  Why is this needed?

-Boris
Received on Tuesday, 14 December 2010 19:14:59 UTC

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