Dear WebKit, After nearly a year of building up the shadow DOM plumbing and converting WebKit to use it, we are finally at the point where we can expose this plumbing as public-facing API. The approach we take here is a very cautious one: we want to expose the minimum subset of the larger Web Component Model (some of you might remember is it as XBL2).
The goal is to minimize the impact, but have something useful enough for Web developers to help us gather feedback. After careful consideration, we've come up with this subset for our first iteration: http://dglazkov.github.com/component-model/dom.html Since this is an experimental API, here are the actual API names we want to use: Element.webkitShadow Element.webkitPseudo document.webkitCreateShadow() window.WebKitShadowRootConstructor window.WebKitTreeScopeConstructor We will also provide the ENABLE(COMPONENT_MODEL) flag to control availability of this API and its iterations, even though all of the C++ code will always compile, since it's used throughout WebKit. NOTE: This iteration of the API is not intended to ship in a release version of a browser (think nightlies and dev channel only). Be sure to disable it on your respective release branches. Please chime in if you have concerns. Wish us luck! :DG< _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
