2026-05-02 03:54 UTC
Just discovered this excellent resource about which CSS features work well in shadow DOM and which don't: https://shadow-dom-css.adobe.com/
Honestly this is the part I miss least about working with web components. It broke so many parts of the web platform, and plenty of new web APIs seem to be just plowing ahead and hoping "somebody will figure out this shadow DOM stuff later"
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@nolan@toot.cafe 2026-05-02 04:10
I don't want to dismiss the hard work that people are doing to make the web platform more cohesive. And of course competing interests and priorities will always make the web "lumpy": https://paul.kinlan.me/the-lumpy-web/ But still, as a web developer, it's exhausting. This site doesn't even cover @font-face, ARIA IDref, submit buttons in forms, focus libraries, browser extensions, styling… the list goes on and on. When you work with shadow DOM, you're opting into pain.
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@patrickfulton@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 14:53
@nolan@toot.cafe thanks for the kind words! All the kudos go to @5t3ph@front-end.social and @cory@follow.coryd.dev for making this happen!