On 2/5/14 12:00 AM, ext Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
Hi,
Apparently there has been discussions about hats and cats selector combinators
in www-style:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0032.html
In that Tab (Atkins) from Google made a comment saying that Chrome will be
shipping Shadow DOM in the very near future:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Feb/0036.html
My understanding is that shadow DOM specification is still being chartered by
this very WebApps working group, and unless I’m missing something, the
specification was not considered stable enough for any browser vendor to ship
without prefixes or behind a flag at least in the last TPAC. In fact, the
current working draft has many outstanding issues including issue 6 that says
“Hats, ^, and Cats, ^^, selector combinators should be defined in this section.”
Also, the latest working draft doesn’t reflect recent discussions on the
various mailing lists. For example, section 7.1 Ranges and Selections still
mentions that selections are to be entirely within a single root:
http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/#ranges-and-selection but Jonas
(Sicking) from Mozilla has made a pretty strong argument for allowing selection
to be extended across shadow boundaries following
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013OctDec/0106.html
Am I completely misunderstanding the status of the specification or missing
something?
Dimitri - would you please respond to this issue?
As I mentioned about a month ago [AB], I think it would be helpful to
understand the plans, expectations, etc. for all of the Web Components
specs. As such, would you please followup on this Dimitri (as you agreed
in [DG])?
-Thanks, AB
[AB]
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/0024.html>
[DG]
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2014JanMar/0027.html>
