- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:59:22 -0800
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: Sylvain Galineau <galineau@adobe.com>, "Edward O'Connor" <eoconnor@apple.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> >> wrote: >> > An expedient approach would be to allow selectors to penetrate the >> > shadow >> > DOM by default and in a future spec revision add the ability for >> > component >> > authors to opt out of this, along with introducing other features to >> > support >> > custom styling. >> >> Oh gosh no. Encapsulation by default is absolutely necessary to avoid >> the pains of current jquery/etc components, the avoidance of which is >> the entire point of Shadow DOM. > > > Sorry, by "penetrate the shadow DOM" I meant using the combinators that > Dimitry has proposed, or using the pseudo-element versions. Oh! I'm so sorry, I *completely* misunderstood your email. Yes, that's exactly the plan, actually. We've just figured out that, in the general case, we need full shadow-piercing. We'd like to explore more restricted methods of piercing that people can opt into in the future. ~TJ
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