Re: Shadow tree style isolation primitive

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:

To separate presentational information (CSS) from the semantics (HTML).
> Defining both style isolation boundaries and the associated CSS rules in an
> external CSS file will allow authors to change both of them without having
> to modify every HTML documents that includes the CSS file.  Of course, this
> is a non-starter for Web apps that require a lot of scripting, but style
> isolation is a very useful feature for a lot of static pages as well.
>
> - R. Niwa
>
>
Ryosuke,

Should you also be able to do this from JavaScript/DOM in your opinion?
Like, forget shadow dom as it is today in chrome or proposed -- should you
be able to do something like

```
    element.isolateTree = true;
```

and achieve a similar effect?  If not, why specifically?




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