[webkit-dev] Shadow nodes in webkit

[Giri Rao]

Thanks Niko

Giri

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Nikolas Zimmermann <
zimmermann at physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

>
> Am 24.10.2008 um 06:07 schrieb 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:
>> >
>>
>
> Just for the record: there's another part of the source using shadow trees:
> SVGUseElement.
> SVG <use> elements deep-clone the referenced element, and append it to a
> container node,
> which is marked as shadow tree element. The shadow container node itself
> gets appended
> to the <use> element. So whenever you'd traverse a <use> DOM tree, you'd
> notice a shadow
> tree element as first child.
>


> Greetings,
> Niko
>
>
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