Re: Shadow tree style isolation primitive

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>
wrote:

> ... Hanging "but"?! Oh lordy. Oooh, let me turn this into a contemplative
> sidebar opportunity.
>
> Shadow DOM and Web Components seem to have what I call the "Unicorn
> Syndrome". There's a set of specs that works, proven by at least one
> browser implementation and the use in the wild. It's got warts
> (compromises) and some of those warts are quite ugly. Those warts weren't
> there in the beginning -- they are a result of a hard, multi-year slog of
> trying to make a complete system that doesn't fall over in edge cases, and
> compromising. A lot.
>
> So there's a temptation to make new proposals (unicorns) that are
> wart-free, but incomplete or not well-thought-out. Don't get me wrong. I
> like new ideas. What I would like to avoid is judging a workhorse against a
> unicorn. Armed with your imagination, unicorn will always win.
>

I shouldn't have sent this. It was uncool of me. My bad. Please accept my
apologies.

:DG<