Re: Mozilla and the Shadow DOM

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We found some timing issues with polyfill HTML Imports and native Custom
Elements in Chrome that made us force the Custom Elements polyfill when
HTML Imports is polyfilled. I don't remember the specifics, but I filed the
github issue to either track down and resolve the issues, or provide a flag
to override this behavior for Mozilla to use in testing.

Sorry for the grumbly note, we've tried very hard to make sure Polymer !==
Web Components in public discourse to keep people from conflating the two.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Daniel Freedman <dfreedm@google.com>
wrote:

> Just to close the loop, filed
> https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs/issues/289 to track the
> specific Polymer web component polyfill blocker.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Thanks for the feedback! While the iron is hot I went ahead and
>> > created/updated bugs in the tracker.
>>
>> A problem I have with this approach is that with Shadow DOM (and maybe
>> Web Components in general) there's a lot of open bugs. Of those bugs
>> it's not at all clear which the editors plan on addressing. Which
>> makes it harder to plan for us.
>>
>>
>> Also, a point that I forgot to make in my initial email is that
>> Polymer makes it rather hard for us to ship any part of Web Components
>> without all the other parts (and in the manner that Chrome implemented
>> the features):
>>
>>   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1107662
>>
>>
> The linked bug is simply incorrect. Polymer depends on webcomponentsjs (
> https://github.com/webcomponents/webcomponentsjs) for browsers without
> all the Web Components specs, but each part is feature detected, with
> separate checks for Custom Elements, HTML Imports, and ShadowDOM, as well
> as HTML Template, constructable URL, and MutationObserver
>
> Chrome did not implement and ship all the specs at once, so Polymer has
> had to feature detect from the start.
>
>
>>
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>> https://annevankesteren.nl/
>>
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