Re: [shadow-styling] First Draft of Shadow DOM Styling uploaded

On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 3:40 PM, James Ross
<w3c-20040125@james-ross.co.uk> wrote:
>> From: jackalmage@gmail.com
>> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:24:11 -0800
>>
>> I've uploaded the first draft of Shadow DOM Styling, the spec I
>> intended to write a few weeks ago, to
>> <http://dev.w3.org/csswg/shadow-styling/>.
>>
>> There are a few bits I haven't filled in yet, because it's late and I
>> don't want to work anymore, and I'm sure there are a few holes that
>> aren't even mentioned yet. If you notice any, please let me know.
>
> Looks like example 4 is messed up by missing the escaping of the angle brackets.

Ah, thanks.  Fixed.

> Only thing that seemed genuinely confusing was this part of $4.1 (/shadow), emphasis added:
>
>     Then replace every element in the selector match list with the *host element* and top-level elements of each shadow tree of the element.
>
> It's unclear to me what the purpose or effect of including the host element is here. Can you do "x-foo /shadow :host" to match <x-foo>? That seems somewhat redundant, so I guess I'm missing something here.

Hm, you're right.  It's redundant, *and* it wouldn't work anyway
(:host only matches things if the selector is evaluated in a shadow
tree context).   Removed.

~TJ

Received on Monday, 10 February 2014 00:32:31 UTC