Re: [w3c/webcomponents] The is="" attribute is confusing? Maybe we should encourage only ES6 class-based extension. (#509)

I can provide more details for each of those use cases if necessary,
though, I'm not sure this thread is the best place anymore.

On Mon., 20 Feb. 2017, 18:42 Ryosuke Niwa, <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> @rniwa <https://github.com/rniwa> That is such a cool, outside-of-the-box
> suggestion.
>
> Haha, it's not so outside-of-the-box if you work on the browser engine. We
> have a whole bunch of C++ classes various elements use to behave the way
> they behave. It's not like we implement each element as one monolithic C++
> class. If you think of it, the whole idea of shadow DOM came out of the
> internal implementation detail of input and textarea elements in WebKit,
> which Dave Hyatt modeled after XBL2.
>
> I'm interested in exploring the path this is going down because it feels
> like, if there is a direction for this, library authors can start providing
> abstractions similar to how these might be used natively, thus not only
> giving a stop-gap API that is similar to the WC future, but also being able
> to provide extensions in a similar manner.
>
> Great. We're interested in exploring this space. I think a good start
> would be providing a mechanism to participate in a form submission. The
> accessibility object tree API would go a long way to address the
> accessibility concern, but providing the default accessibility role in
> customElements.define is also a great small step forward. We probably
> don't want to tackle all these issues in this thread though.
>
> Also, this is precisely why I was interested in the list of use cases.
> Because given use cases, we can come up with an iterative API which address
> each one of them.
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