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

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com> wrote:

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> On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:23 PM, Travis Leithead <
> travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:
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>  You make a series of excellent points.
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> In the sense that you have a new set of nodes to manage holistically, then
> having some sort of “document” container does makes sense for that (a
> ShadowRoot) in order to place all your search/navigation APIs.
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> You got me thinking though—getElementById is currently not available on
> ShadowRoot right? Does that API in the host’s document find IDs in the
> shadow? I presume not given the guidelines you mentioned. I wonder what
> other APIs from Document are desired?
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> I thought getElementById existed in ShadowRoot at some point but the
> latest Blink code doesn't have it.  It looks like Blink has
> querySelector/querySelectorAll via ParentNode:
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> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/Source/core/dom/shadow/ShadowRoot.idl
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> https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/blink/+/master/Source/core/dom/ParentNode.idl
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The spec changed,
https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#interface-nonelementparentnode

ShadowRoot is a DocumentFragment and DocumentFragment implements
NonElementParentNode.

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