Shadow DOM might be really, really useful for millions of developers building ordinary business web apps. It is 2014 and would be good to add new things like Shadow DOM, new layout models so in _2020_ there will be standard and a sane way to center a ... div.
It is a joke at Blink removing CSS Regions' 10k LOC for mobile performance.
> Shadow DOM might be really, really useful for millions of developers building ordinary business web apps.
Current implementation of Shadow DOM has little to do with future implementation of Web Component's Shadow DOM (See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243328). It was already removed 9 months ago after the Blink fork due to its experimental nature and lack of maintainer (http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/150070). This commit only removing the remaining parts of it.
No, and count the ways you got it wrong:
1) This is not Apple in general, it's a specific team at Apple.
2) The never said this is "innovation" to them. Just a goal they have.
3) Who said it's from 59 to 60? Might be from 30 to 60fps.
4) Smooth animation/scrolling experience matters and IS innovation.
Even worse, the whole line is a joke -- at a similar Google line.