It was a revolutionary technology that came seemingly out of nowhere. It asked us to change our mental model. But we found it had much fewer applications than it claims, and it doesn't quite do the things we hoped it would, in the ways we anticipated. A solution looking for a problem.
I'm talking, of course, about Shadow DOM. In this lecture--
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