[webkit-dev] Shadow nodes in webkit

[Giri Rao]

Thanks Rick.

Giri

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Rick <graham.rick at gmail.com> wrote:

> This link may be of assistance:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-sXBL-20040901/
>
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Adele Peterson <adele at apple.com> wrote:
> > Hi Giri,
> > WebKit creates shadow nodes for many of the form controls.  As you
> noticed,
> > these nodes are not visible from the DOM, but the renderers for those
> nodes
> > can be traversed in the render tree.  For example, a text field or text
> area
> > has a shadow DOM that contains all the text inside the control.  A file
> > upload control has a shadow nodes for  the  "choose file" button.  This
> is
> > just a way for WebKit to build elements using HTML without exposing the
> > internal details to web content.
> > - Adele
> > On Oct 23, 2008, at 6:22 PM, Giri Rao wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am running into a bit of a problem, let me try and explain the best I
> can:
> >
> > I am traversing RenderObject tree in webkit.  I notice that there are
> > certain nodes (accessed using render_object->node()) which are shadow
> nodes
> > (node->isShadow() returns true).  I note down the address of one such
> node,
> > lets say the address is 100.  The node name of this node is "DIV"
> >
> > Now, I traverse the dom tree using Node, for each node I note down the
> > node's address. I am noticing that I am not seeing any nodes while
> > traversing the dom tree whose address is 100.
> >
> > So two questions:
> > 1.  Why would webkit create a node which is not part of the dom tree?
> > 2.  What are shadow nodes?
> >
> > Any insight is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
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> --
> Cheers!
> Rick
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