Hi Dmitri!

I remember last time this came up, there was some controversy, both within the 
WebKit community and among browser implementors more broadly. Kudos for writing 
a much more comprehensive spec and taking more of the feedback into account. 
For example, I am delighted to see that there is no direct poking at the shadow 
tree in this version. This is great progress.

There are two things I'd like to know about before wholeheartedly voicing my 
support for an implementation effort:

1) You mentioned that Mozilla and Microsoft are participating. I was unable to 
find on-the-record comments from either Mozilla or Microsoft in response to 
your latest spec draft on either public-webapps or in the bugzilla bugs cited. 
If I overlooked it, I'd appreciate a pointer, otherwise, it would be great if 
we could get some sort of remarks from them on the public record. I want to 
make sure that at least the general direction we go in is one that other 
vendors support.

2) I recall that in past discussions, a key issue was the desire from many to 
see a declarative syntax in order to fully evaluate the proposal (as opposed to 
assuming it could be added later as a layer on top). I was unable to find this 
in the spec proposal. If I missed it, can you point me to where it is? Or was 
it decided at some point that this isn't actually necessary to evaluate the 
proposal?

Thanks,
Maciej


On Jan 11, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:

> Hi WebKit!
> 
> I wanted to let you know that we are planning to implement the Shadow
> DOM specification
> (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/shadow/index.html)
> in WebKit. For now, its public-facing APIs will hide behind
> ENABLE(SHADOW_DOM) flag and help gather implementer and developer
> feedback.
> 
> Shadow DOM spec is part of the Web Components effort (see overview
> here: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/index.html),
> and is on the standards track in the WebApps WG. Work is ongoing
> (https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/showdependencytree.cgi?id=14972), with
> participation from Microsoft and Mozilla. Adobe also expressed
> interest in contributing.
> 
> In addition, Shadow DOM is being considered as the replacement of
> similar plumbing in SVG for SVG v.Next. This particular effort is just
> starting in SVG WG.
> 
> The meta bug to follow is https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63606.
> 
> :DG<
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