Re: [Shadow] Q: Removable shadows (and an idea for lightweight shadows)?

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Travis Leithead <
travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  Hi folks,
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> Today’s ShadowDOM model is designed around only adding shadow roots to
> element in the ‘light side’. I assume this is intentional, but was hoping
> someone could describe why this design was chosen? Or said another way, if
> there was an imperative API to _*remove*_ a shadow DOM, would that
> symmetry be bad?
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> In full transparency, I’m thinking about potential solutions for a
> simplified shadow dom, and it occurs to me that it can’t get much simpler
> than the following:
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> ·        Elements only [ever] have one “shadow side” which is essentially
> a secondary child node list. Whenever anything’s in this list the Element
> renders that content instead of its “light” children. (Or maybe there’s a
> switch to tell the element which side to render: light or dark?)
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> ·        Elements expose this “shadow node list” via APIs that are very
> similar to existing node list management, e.g., appendShadowChild(),
> insertShadowBefore(), removeShadowChild(), replaceShadowChild(),
> shadowChildren[], shadowChildNodes[].
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This part seems like a big step back to me. Shadow roots being actual nodes
means that existing code and knowledge work against them. The API surface
that you'd have to duplicate with shadow*() methods would be quite large.

 ·        No special Event swizzling, no security boundary, no alternate
> script engine, no intermediate shadow root object,  etc. This minimalist
> approach only provides node ‘hiding’ and potentially an alternate rendering
> path.
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> ·        Another feature could then provide the stronger “component”
> boundary, specifically the javascript global scope isolation. This
> delineation may more closely match the division we are seeing between the
> “React-like” scenarios and more robust component-kitchen-style custom
> element deployments.
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Received on Thursday, 26 March 2015 18:19:20 UTC