[Decorators]: Alternative idea using CSS variables (bugzilla: 15479)

[hayatoito]

Title: [Decorators]: Alternative idea using CSS variables (bugzilla: 15479)

Migrated from: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15479

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Dimitri Glazkov wrote on 2012-01-09 23:10:42 +0000.

Goes like this:

• There are no decorators in Web Components.

Instead:

• Whenever a CSS variable (http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-variables/) changes, it fires a simple event (non-bubbling, non-cancellable).
• There's a CSS-based method for building extra rendering blocks of around DOM elements (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2012Jan/0202.html).

The latter allows us to avoid creating a markup-based vehicle to generate rendering blocks. The former allow us to send signals down to custom elements whenever rule starts/stops matching.

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comment_url: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15479#c1
Dimitri Glazkov wrote on 2012-01-09 23:16:43 +0000.

Comments are welcome.

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comment_url: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15479#c2
Tab Atkins Jr. wrote on 2012-01-10 01:34:40 +0000.

I'm confused by the simple event. What does it fire on?

How do you envision this helping?

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comment_url: https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15479#c3
Dimitri Glazkov wrote on 2012-01-10 03:57:51 +0000.

(In reply to comment #2)

I'm confused by the simple event. What does it fire on?

How do you envision this helping?

You're confused?! Imagine me re-reading what I wrote. I blame it on a bad batch of crack. I'll rewrite this better tomorrow.

[hayatoito]

Let me close this bug since this looks obsolete.