On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benja...@webkit.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > There appears to be a lot of Web component related features in WebKit that > used to be maintained by Chromium contributors; specifically those related to > Shadow DOM and node distributions. > > What do we do with them? The specification is still under the construction > and our implementation is getting outdated day by day. > > I certainly see the value of the proposed specification, and I would like it > to be shipped by WebKit browsers. However, having unmaintained code that is > this invasive in WebCore is very harmful in short term. > > Is anyone stepping up to maintain the code, or should we consider removing > them for the time being? > > All that unmaintained code has a cost we should not have to pay. > > I am in favor of removing it and bring the code back later when someone > decide to support that spec. +1 From what I’ve heard, the Shadow DOM changes have negatively impacted the packability of the DOM code which is unfortunate. I’m all for removing it. - Anders
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