[webkit-dev] About WebIDL supplemental interfaces

[Alan Stearns]

Adam,

Currently, an Element is the only thing represented in the object model
that can become a CSS Region.

Pseudo-elements (::before and ::after) can become CSS Regions, but AFAIK
there isn't yet a representation of those in the OM. I'm hoping this
changes in the future (I'm working on a spec that addresses this), so that
could be a second copy. I can construct a region chain now that includes
pseudo-element Regions, and the NamedFlow interface is supposed to return
a sequence of Regions from its getRegions() method. So ideally we'd have a
way of returning a Region interface for those pseudo-elements that have
been added to the region chain.

Alan

On 7/19/12 10:50 AM, "Adam Barth" <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

>What else can become a region besides an element?  If there aren't too
>many interfaces, we can just copy/paste this stanza into each IDL,
>like we do for EventTarget.  If there are a lot of them, then I agree
>that you'll probably want a fancier Supplemental feature.
>
>One way to approach that is to make the [Supplemental] attribute take
>a list of interfaces.  That should be straightforward to implement
>given our current implementation of Supplemental.
>
>Adam
>
>
>On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Andrei Bucur <abucur at adobe.com> wrote:
>> Hello Adam,
>>
>> Sure:
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-css3-regions-20120503/#the-region-interface
>>
>> The spec does not explicitly states that the Region should be
>>supplemental,
>> however after raising some issues on www-style (
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jul/0251.html )  and
>> talking them through (offline) it seemed the best way to solve them was
>> making Region supplemental for Element and any other object that could
>> become region. Right now, I'm feeling out the situation to see how
>>feasible
>> this is to be implemented in WebKit.
>>
>> Andrei.
>>
>> From: Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org>
>> Date: Thursday, July 19, 2012 7:31 PM
>> To: Andrei Bucur <abucur at adobe.com>
>> Cc: Kentaro Hara <haraken at chromium.org>, "webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org"
>> <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
>> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] About WebIDL supplemental interfaces
>>
>> Can you say what specifically in the CSS regions spec is giving you
>>trouble?
>>
>> Adam
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