Re: [Shadow DOM] Simplifying level 1 of Shadow DOM

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Blake Kaplan <mrbkap@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org> wrote:
>> As far as implementation complexity, <content select>, distribution
>> APIs, and <shadow> are trivial, compared to the event handling and
>> representation of the composed tree. Hoping to alleviate this, I wrote
>> all event-related handling as imperatively as I could.
>
> While I agree that specifying <content select>, distribution APIs, and
> <shadow> is relatively simpler than some of the other parts of the
> spec, I'm pretty worried right now about the performance of those
> features, especially for dynamic changes. I just found out, as well,
> that Mozilla's XBL implementation of these features worked correctly
> in the static case, but is completely wrong in the dynamic case, so we
> don't have any real data on how slow doing that stuff correctly is.

I wonder if it would be helpful for me to specify exactly where the
distribution/composition integrity must be ensured
(https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20141)? This should
help implementers to build a well-performing implementation.

:DG<

Received on Monday, 29 April 2013 22:26:32 UTC