Re: Custom elements ES6/ES5 syntax compromise, was: document.register and ES6

Since many of these cases are 'semantic' elements, whose only raison d'être
(afaik) is having a particular localName, I'm not sure how we get around
this without being able to specify an 'extends' option.

document.register('fancy-header', {
  prototype: FancyHeaderPrototype,
  extends: 'header'
...



On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>wrote:

> It seems that there's some additional reasoning that needs to go into
> whether an element could be constructed as custom tag. Like in this
> case, it should work both as a custom tag and as a type extension (the
> "is" attr).
>
> :DG<
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
> > Nope, you're 100% right, I saw header and thought HTMLHeadingElement for
> > some reason - so this seems like a valid concern. What are the
> > mitigation/solution options we can present to developers for this case?
> >
> >
> > Daniel J. Buchner
> > Product Manager, Developer Ecosystem
> > Mozilla Corporation
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Perhaps I'm making a mistake, but there is no specific prototype for the
> >> native header element. 'header', 'footer', 'section', e.g., are all
> >> HTMLElement, so all I can do is
> >>
> >> FancyHeaderPrototype = Object.create(HTMLElement.prototype);
> >>
> >> Afaict, the 'headerness' cannot be expressed this way.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Wait a sec, perhaps I've missed something, but in your example you
> never
> >>> extend the actual native header element, was that on purpose? I was
> under
> >>> the impression you still needed to inherit from it in the prototype
> >>> creation/registration phase, is that not true?
> >>>
> >>> On Feb 19, 2013 8:26 PM, "Scott Miles" <sjmiles@google.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Question: if I do
> >>>>
> >>>> FancyHeaderPrototype = Object.create(HTMLElement.prototype);
> >>>> document.register('fancy-header', {
> >>>>   prototype: FancyHeaderPrototype
> >>>> ...
> >>>>
> >>>> In this case, I intend to extend "header". I expect my custom elements
> >>>> to look like <header is="fancy-header">, but how does the system know
> what
> >>>> localName to use? I believe the notion was that the localName would be
> >>>> inferred from the prototype, but there are various semantic tags that
> share
> >>>> prototypes, so it seems ambiguous in these cases.
> >>>>
> >>>> S
>