Re: [Component Model]: Shadow DOM Subtree per element: One or Many?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Dominic Cooney <dominicc@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:44, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org> wrote:
>>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> It would surely allow certain use cases to be covered that are not
>>> covered today with form control elements.
>>>
>>> How about not throwing on new ShadowTree(element) and just append a
>>> new shadow root after the existing ones?
>>
>> That would make the order "as instantiated", which is totally fine by
>> me. It would be good to add a use case which describes the need for
>> this. Anyone got a good idea? Don't want to reuse Adam's autocomplete
>> one, since HTML already provides a solution.
>
> +1 to finding a use case. When I try to think of one, I usually end up
> with: I would rather do this using composition. The only benefit of
> multiple shadows over composition is that I don’t need to forward most
> of the API to the primary part of the composition.
>
> One big question for me is: Do you expect multiple shadows to be
> designed to work together, or come from multiple independent sources
> (like different script libraries)?

Can you help me understand what you mean by this? What would be a
functional difference between the two cases you outlined?

>
>> :DG<
>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> erik
>>>
>>
>

Received on Thursday, 25 August 2011 02:57:51 UTC