oddbird / oddbird/css-anchor-positioning

Apply polyfill to styles in CSS @imports

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enhancement
Dominant language
TypeScript
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Description

Is your feature request related to how this polyfill works? Please describe.
When fetching styles to be polyfilled, we currently are not following any @import rules. This means that any anchor positioning-related rules in imported stylesheets will not be polyfilled.

Describe the solution you'd like
Before applying the polyfill, we would need to recursively parse all stylesheets for @import rules.

Alternatively, could we use document.stylesheets to do the initial gathering step for us? I'm unsure if imported stylesheets are included, and we'd need to find a solution that works for Shadow documents as well.

Additional context
#324 only addresses part of the issue, by allowing polyfilled stylesheets to import other stylesheets.

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Research direction

Start by tracing how stylesheets are fetched and how CSS @import rules are currently handled. Compare recursive parsing with using document.stylesheets, including the Shadow documents case, and account for the limitation described in #324. Done means imported stylesheets are gathered and their anchor-positioning rules are polyfilled.

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Assessment

Tech stack
css, typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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