On Fri 2013-04-26, at 9:46 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> 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 and our implementation is getting outdated day by day.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?

I agree that it should be removed from WebKit at this time. The bit-rot has 
already started to set in.

We'll need a new solution for the <details> and <summary> elements, as they are 
currently implemented using this functionality. I believe Antti has expressed 
interest in working on this.

-Andreas
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