Comments on Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert, writes about on his personal Web site; it's largely Web standards and Web technology, but also various bits of culture, politics, personal observations, and other miscellaneous stuff2026-01-17T01:16:53Zhttps://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/12/19/targeting-by-reference-in-the-shadow-dom/feed/atom/
By: Dev Devhttps://veduis.comhttps://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/?p=5723#comment-42104202026-01-17T01:16:53Z2026-01-17T01:16:53ZIt’s ironic that to solve the complexity of ‘leaky’ global IDs, we created the Shadow DOM, which then created the complexity of broken ARIA references, which now requires the complexity of a referenceTarget API. We’re essentially building a sophisticated routing system for the DOM and it makes you wonder at what point does the cost of isolation outweigh the benefits of the original problem solved?
]]>
By: Weekly Reading List December 22 2025 – OZeWAI Weekly Reading List December 22 2025 – OZeWAIhttps://ozewai.org/blog/ozewai-news/weekly-reading-list-december-22-2025/https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/?p=5723#comment-41905862025-12-23T00:01:25Z2025-12-23T00:01:25Z[…] Targeting by Reference in the Shadow DOM Eric Meyer: If we’re going to have a Shadow DOM, the least we can do is make it as accessible and useful as possible. […]
]]>