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View Transitions 1 says that a view transition has a
transition root pseudo-element
a ::view-transition. Initially a new ::view-transition.
This implies that a new ::view-transition
gets created for every view transition and they all originate from the document element, all the time.
So then document gets extended with
show view transition tree
A boolean. Initially false.
When this is true, this’s active view transition’s transition root pseudo-element renders as a child of this’s document element, with this’s document element is its originating element.
so that it can control which of these gets rendered and when. (Note: it's only ever one and its contents stop being useful once it stops being rendered)
Would it not be simpler to just fill ::view-transition
with content in Setup transition pseudo-elements (like right now), and then remove all that content in Clear view transition? (instead of setting show view transition tree to false) Rendering an empty ::view-transition
does nothing, any references to the transition root pseudo-element can just talk about the ::view-transition
on the document element instead and, from what I can tell, no other spec ever tries to read from show view transition tree so it's now unnecessary.
TLDR: ::view-transition
is already defined, which implies it to exist anyways and there is currently only ever one of them being rendered so I don't see why show view transition tree and transition root pseudo-element need to exist. They seem to be doing a bunch of paperwork and allocations and defining of stuff for no reason.
I ask because I am implementing this in Ladybird and just not implementing these concepts seems like the most straight-forward way to do that. (and I feel like I must be missing something)