Re: [dom] Comments on heycam's new SVG DOM

• From: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
• Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:55:44 +1200
• To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
• CC: www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <520D4E60.3060602@mcc.id.au>

Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
> Oh yes, another suggestion which made my friend in Chrome Security
> almost weep in happiness:
>
> Let's kill the instance tree for<use>  in the new DOM.  animVal and
> the instanceTree constitute nearly the entirety of SVG's horrible
> security/crashiness in our implementation, and I doubt we're very
> unique.  The instance tree is also the big thing preventing us from
> just re-explaining<use>  in terms of Shadow DOM.

I think we've already decided to do that (cast <use> as a Shadow DOM 
thing).  The work hasn't been done yet though.

Received on Thursday, 15 August 2013 21:56:17 UTC