Re: Inheritance Model for Shadow DOM Revisited

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:
> The problem with "<shadow> as function" is that the superclass implicitly selects nodes based on a CSS selector so unless the nodes a subclass wants to insert matches exactly what the author of superclass considered, the subclass won't be able to override it. e.g. if the superclass had an insertion point with select="input.foo", then it's not possible for a subclass to then override it with, for example, an input element wrapped in a span.

So what if we flipped this as well and came up with an imperative API
for "<shadow> as a function". I.e. "<shadow> as an actual function"?
Would that give us agreement?

It'd be great to have something like this available.


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Received on Thursday, 30 April 2015 11:44:11 UTC