[webkit-dev] Multiple inheritance in the DOM

[Alan Stearns]

On 7/26/12 2:36 PM, "Adam Barth" <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:

>
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Alexandru Chiculita <achicu at adobe.com>
>wrote:
>
>I don't see any advantage in having the interface anyway, so why don't we
>just it let be a separate object and add two helper methods instead. I
>can only imagine that other browsers might have the same issue anyway.
>
>document.getRegionForElement(element)
>-> where element can be both Element and CSSPseudoElement
>-> this may return null in case of no region being associated, so there's
>no need for instanceof tricks anymore.
>
>region.element
>-> that can return either Element or CSSPseudoElement
>
>BTW, is there any base class shared across Element and CSSPseudoElement?
>


>
>Greping for CSSPseudoElement in WebCore appears to return zero results.
>
>
>Discussing this issue with Sam in #webkit, we wondered whether another
>solution is to not implement the CSSOM for Regions.  Is there are strong
>use case for having this CSSOM in the first place?
>
>
>Adam

CSSPseudoElement is something I want to bring up soon in the CSS WG.
Future extensions like this as to what can become a CSS Region is the
motivation for separating out the Region interface. Whether there's a
shared base class that makes sense is still to be determined.

There are strong use cases for the object model for CSS Regions. Adobe has
projects we'd like to base on CSS Regions, and script access  will be
vital for these efforts. We've also been building prototypes of other CSS
extensions using the CSS Regions OM. I understand that there are projects
based on IE10's version of CSS Regions where script access is required.
And in general I'd rather avoid adding new things to the platform that are
opaque to scripting.

For Alex's suggestion above, would there be any problems with a parameter
(for the first method) and return type (for the second) that could be an
Element or something else? Adding two helper methods seems messier to me
than what's currently specced, but I'm open to the idea if it's much
easier to implement.

Thanks,

Alan