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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 02:51:53 JST Paul Cantrell

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   • Olu

   @oluOnline I’ve wondered that too!

   Maybe relevant: in programming languages, when one variable is masked by a different variable with the same name in a more local scope, e.g.:

   let x = 1
   if (blah) {
   let x = 2
   }

   …people say the inner x “shadows” the outer x. Maybe the idea here is that the component’s CSS shadows the enclosing stylesheet? But I have no specific evidence behind that guess.

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     Olu (oluonline@social.gfsc.studio)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 02:51:56 JST Olu

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     by "that" I mean shadow lol, I'm confused what shadows have to do with encapsulation

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     Olu (oluonline@social.gfsc.studio)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 02:51:57 JST Olu

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     does anyone know why the Shadow DOM is called that?

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     Olu (oluonline@social.gfsc.studio)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jan-2024 02:51:58 JST Olu

     Does anyone have favourite resources for learning about web components?