Re: [webcomponents]: Making Shadow DOM Subtrees Traversable

It's been a while since I looked at this spec, what are the ways in which
you can get access? It seems like a name such as traversable could work
well.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com> wrote:

> What about obscured, opaque, invisible, or restricted?
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> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com> wrote:
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>> On 3/12/13 2:41 PM, "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU> wrote:
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>> >On 3/12/13 5:19 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
>> >> However, to allow developers a degree of enforcing integrity of their
>> >> shadow trees, we are going add a new mode, an equivalent of a "KEEP
>> OUT"
>> >> sign, if you will, which will makes a shadow tree non-traversable,
>> >> effectively skipping over it in an element's shadow tree stack.
>> >
>> >To be clear, what this mode does is turn off the simple way of getting
>> >the shadow tree.  It does not promise that someone can't get at the
>> >shadow tree via various non-obvious methods, because in practice such
>> >promises are empty as long as script inside the component runs against
>> >the web page global.
>> >
>> >The question is how to name this.  "Hidden" seems to promise too much to
>> >me.  Perhaps "obfuscated"?  "Veiled"?
>> >
>> >-Boris
>> >
>> >P.S.  Tempting as it is, "RedWithGreenPolkadots" is probably not an OK
>> >name for this bikeshed.
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>> Apologies in advance for adding to the bikeshedding
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>> protected (mostly private, but you can get around it)
>> shielded (the shield can be lowered)
>> gated (the gate can be opened)
>> fenced (most fences have an opening)
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>> Or bleenish-grue, if we're going with color names.
>>
>> Alan
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Received on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 23:12:19 UTC