[webkit-dev] Implementing Complex webform Widgets using ShadowDom

[Hema Chidanand]

Dear Morrita,

as per your suggestion i have filed a bug at
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107296.

I shall be very thankful to recieve your comments on the same.

Thanks

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Hajime Morrita <morrita at chromium.org>wrote:

> Hi Hema,
>
> If you are talking about WebKit and HTML, it already does it for some of
> its built-in HTML elements.
>
> Some UI controls, which are modal and don't fit into the page layout, are
> implemented using native UI controls. These modal controls shouldn't
> constrained by WebKit rendering area like iframes. In such case, OS native
> controls are suited. File chooser is a perfect example of this.
>
> Some other controls like progress bars and spin buttons are implemented
> using Shadow DOM. They aren't modal and need to be parts of the page layout.
>
> The decision which of native-controls/shadow-dom should be used for
> implementing HTML form controls is case by case and
> in't that simple. You can see how <input> element is implemented. When you
> try to implement any new control for HTML, it would be good to file a bug
> and have further discussion there. See
> http://www.webkit.org/coding/adding-features.html
>
> If you are talking about Web-app or JS library development, webkit-dev
> isn't a place for that. Sites like stackoverflow.com will work well.
> There are also some good tutorials. For example:
> http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/shadowdom/
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> morrita
>
>
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