Re: Shadow tree style isolation primitive

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 13, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> - R. Niwa
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> Ryosuke,
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> 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
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> ```
>     element.isolateTree = true;
> ```
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> and achieve a similar effect?  If not, why specifically?
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> Or element.setAttribute('isolatetree', true);  I can't think of a reason
> not to do this.
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> - R. Niwa
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So if that is a given, why can we not start there and explain how it would
work and use it to fashion increasingly high abstractions - hopefully with
the ability to do some experimentation outside of native implementations?


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