Re: CfC: Face to face meeting on Components, 21 June

I assume meeting notes will be posted to the list for those who can't
attend? A lot of good topics there.

>> There's a new ::distributed() pseudo-element function, which
provides a way for a shadow tree to affect style of the elements,
distributed into insertion points

This makes me (and will make other developers I've talked to) a happy panda.

- Angelina


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>wrote:

> Thanks for the announcement, Chaals!
>
> Since we will only have a day for this Awesome Web Components Party
> (even less than a full day, technically), I want to narrow the topic
> down a bit to Shadow DOM and CSS interaction. Here's a quick problem
> statement.
>
> There are currently several places where Shadow DOM and CSS interact
> with each other:
> * The shadow tree encapsulation boundaries affect style resolution
> * There are switches, such as resetStyleInheritance that provide
> controls of how the style is affected
> * There's a new @host at-rule, which provides a way for a shadow tree
> to affect styling of the shadow host
> * There's a new ::distributed() pseudo-element function, which
> provides a way for a shadow tree to affect style of the elements,
> distributed into insertion points
> * There's a method for defining custom pseudo-elements
>
> As real Web developers started poking around the spec and
> implementation, a new set of questions/ideas arose (listed in no
> particular order):
>
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21391
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21486
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21959
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20600
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18435
>
> I thought it would be good to throw some CSS, Shadow DOM, and Web
> developer peeps into one large cauldron, season with whiteboards and
> felt markers, and stir it vigorously--while maniacally cackling, of
> course!--to see what new ideas could come out.
>
> :DG<
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Charles McCathie Nevile
> <chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Dmitry started talking to people about getting together in the Bay Area
> to
> > talk through components, and ended up with a number of people interested.
> > Although we are past the deadline for a normal meeting announcement,
> unless
> > anybody objects it is still possible to hold an official meeting.
> >
> > This would let us use Zakim to provide remote dial-in, and the chairs
> feel
> > that this is far better than simply having the meeting go ahead
> pretending
> > not to be a webapps meeting.
> >
> > We are therefore calling for consensus to let this meeting go ahead
> despite
> > the short notice. Silence will be considered assent, and responses will
> be
> > taken up to the end of the day (midnight in the last timezone) Tuesday 21
> > May.
> >
> > Assuming we get the go-ahead, an agenda, dial-in details, etc will be
> made
> > available, but the topic for the meeting is the Web Components work.
> >
> > for the chairs
> > Chaals
> >
> > --
> > Charles McCathie Nevile - Consultant (web standards) CTO Office, Yandex
> >       chaals@yandex-team.ru         Find more at http://yandex.com
> >
>
>