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Prefixed Shadow DOM

Category

Web Components

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Deprecated (Chrome 35)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Enables DOM tree encapsulation. Without it, widgets may inadvertently break pages by using conflicting CSS selectors, class or id names, or JavaScript variables.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/shadow/
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: http://crbug.com/145868

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