- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:43:29 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Roland Steiner <rolandsteiner@google.com>
- cc: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, public-webapps@w3.org, Dominic Cooney <dominicc@google.com>, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Edward O'Connor <eoconnor@apple.com>
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Roland Steiner wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 04:58, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 4 Oct 2011, Roland Steiner wrote: > > > On a second note, what you essentially seem to demand is swapping > > > out entire HTML sub-branches based on presentation. > > > > It's not how I would describe it (I wouldn't expect the shadow trees > > to be written using HTML), but to a first approximation, sure. > > Intriguing - could you elaborate on the above? Do you mean shadow trees > should not use HTML, but something different? (If so, what instead? pure > JS?) Or do you mean shadow trees should not be defined in the HTML of > the main DOM and then swapped into the shadow trees? If the latter, I > fully agree. Shadow trees tend to just be a bunch of semantic-free elements (like <div>), not semantic-rich HTML (like <p> or <input>); so much so that in XBL2 we actually had an XBL-namespace <div> so you wouldn't have to use the HTML namespace <div>. It's not an important difference. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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