Re: [webcomponents]: First draft of the Shadow DOM Specification

On 12/20/11 4:49 PM, Edward O'Connor wrote:
>      #player::controls
>
> I'm worried that users may stomp all over the CSS WG's ability to mint
> future pseudo-element names. I'd rather use a functional syntax to
> distinguish between custom, user-defined pseudo-elements and
> engine-supplied, CSS WG-blessed ones. Something like
>
>      #player::shadow(controls)
> or
>      #player::custom(controls)
>
> could do the trick. The latter (or some other, non-shadow-DOM-specific
> name) is potentially more exciting because there may be more use cases
> for author-supplied pseudo-elements than just the shadow DOM. For
> instance, I could imagine an extension to DOM Range which would allow a
> user to name a range for selector matching.

Would you expand more on that non-shadow-DOM-specific idea?
In the meantime, I'm happy with the ::shadow(controls) selector.

Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 01:23:23 UTC