> On Jan 13, 2015, at 3:46 PM, Brian Kardell <bkard...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@apple.com
> <mailto:rn...@apple.com>> wrote:
>
> To separate presentational information (CSS) from the semantics (HTML).
> Defining both style isolation boundaries and the associated CSS rules in an
> external CSS file will allow authors to change both of them without having to
> modify every HTML documents that includes the CSS file. Of course, this is a
> non-starter for Web apps that require a lot of scripting, but style isolation
> is a very useful feature for a lot of static pages as well.
>
> - R. Niwa
>
>
> Ryosuke,
>
> Should you also be able to do this from JavaScript/DOM in your opinion?
> Like, forget shadow dom as it is today in chrome or proposed -- should you be
> able to do something like
>
> ```
> element.isolateTree = true;
> ```
>
> and achieve a similar effect? If not, why specifically?
Or element.setAttribute('isolatetree', true); I can't think of a reason not to
do this.
- R. Niwa
