How would you style these "shadow" children? Would the main document CSS styles affect these children?
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Travis Leithead < travis.leith...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > From: Justin Fagnani [mailto:justinfagn...@google.com] > >> 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[]. > > > >This part seems like a big step back to me. Shadow roots being actual > nodes means > >that existing code and knowledge work against them. > > "existing code and knowledge work against them" -- I'm not sure you > understood correctly. > Nodes in the "shadow child list" wouldn't show up in the childNodes list, > nor in any of the > node traversal APIs (e.g., not visible to qSA, nextSibling, > previousSibling, children, childNodes, > ect. > > Trivially speaking, if you wanted to hide two divs that implement a "stack > panel" and have some > element render it, you'd just do: > element.appendShadowChild(document.createElement('div')) > element.appendShadowChild(document.createElement('div')) > > Those divs would not be discoverable by any traditional DOM APIs (they > would now be on the > "shadow side"), and the only way to see/use them would be to use the new > element.shadowChildren > collection. > > But perhaps I'm misunderstanding your point. > > >The API surface that you'd have to duplicate with shadow*() methods would > be quite large. > > That's true. Actually, I think the list above is probably about it. > >
