[whatwg] Styling <details>

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jan 2 21:10:11 PST 2013


On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 1/2/13 4:37 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > Wait, Web Components isn't solving this? I thought this was one of the
> > main use cases of Web Components.
> 
> [...] and it is certainly not doing:
> 
> 4)  Defining the browser-defined "custom" widgets using the
>     capabilities of #2 such that authors can in fact style them.

Why not? This seems like a pretty core feature. Without being able to do 
this, how can anyone reliably extend an existing widget, for example?

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