[webkit-dev] What do we do with various Web component features?

[Anders Carlsson]

On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:38 PM, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> 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 The specification is still under the construction and our implementation is getting outdated day by day.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?
> 
> All that unmaintained code has a cost we should not have to pay.
> 
> I am in favor of removing it and bring the code back later when someone decide to support that spec.

+1

From what I’ve heard, the Shadow DOM changes have negatively impacted the packability of the DOM code which is unfortunate. I’m all for removing it.

- Anders


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