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Re:Constraint CSS by masklinn on Friday July 04, 2014 @10:20AM (#7988803)
Shadow DOM is no solution to the issue pointed out by OP, which is CSS-based layouting. Flexbox[0] or grid[1]? Sure, they exist specifically to (finally) add actual layouting abilities to CSS.

> Thinking in terms of components is much easier than trying to manage div soup.

It still does not solve the issue at hand.

[0] http://caniuse.com/flexbox

[1] http://caniuse.com/css-grid

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Re:Constraint CSS by tkubacki on Friday July 04, 2014 @10:25AM (#7988821)
yea - sure you are right. I just say - there are bigger issues with HTML/CSS than that.
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Re:Constraint CSS by masklinn on Friday July 04, 2014 @10:27AM (#7988833)
> I just say - there are bigger issues with HTML/CSS than that.

Yeah… no, not really. That there still is no way to correctly and reliably layout on the web is a much bigger issue than modularity.

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Re:Constraint CSS by tkubacki on Friday July 04, 2014 @11:38AM (#7989178)
Do you actually do web dev ? How many times you struggled with mingled CSS ? Since there is no ShadowDOM CSS boundry - it's hard to make sure some top level CSS rule is not breaking your very special div style.

Now compare this number with number of times you struggled with layouting your page ? I bet first one is far more common and costly task.

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Re:Constraint CSS by masklinn on Friday July 04, 2014 @12:35PM (#7989407)
> Do you actually do web dev ?

Yes.

> How many times you struggled with mingled CSS ?

Not enough times that I'd get blood pressure issues over it.

> I bet first one is far more common and costly task.

You lost your bet. Which was idiotic, I wouldn't argue web layouting to be a bigger issue if I didn't find it to be.

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Re:Constraint CSS by tkubacki on Friday July 04, 2014 @01:42PM (#7989612)
It's hard to believe. Do you use CSS frameworks like TB derivatives ?

It seems your comment regarding ShadowDOM not helping layouting issues is not entirely true.

Take a look on:

polymer-grid-layout polymer-flex-layout polymer-layout

http://www.polymer-project.org/docs/elements/polymer-element...

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