Re: [webcomponents] writing some pages that use webcomponents, and blogging along the way

This is great stuff Mike, thanks for making it available. I think we are
all #facepalm at the notion of self-documenting component files, very
clever.

>> making things that use components and custom elements is proving
extremely fun =)

Music to my ears.

Scott


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Mike Kamermans <nihongo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I've been playing with web components and custom elements for a bit,
> blogging about my understanding of it at
> http://pomax.nihongoresources.com/index.php?entry=1364168314 and
> writing a demo for the Mozilla "webmaker" dev group to see what we can
> do with them, which is hosted at
> http://pomax.github.com/WebComponentDemo/
>
> This demo has a stack of custom elements that all "tack onto" a media
> element on the page, if there is one, with two pages, one with a media
> element, the other with an image instead, but identical code outside
> of that difference, using the components defined in
> http://pomax.github.com/WebComponentDemo/webmaker-components.html
>
> One thing we're wondering about how to play with is self-documenting
> components. Was there already work done on this, or has anyone else
> already played with that idea? Right now we've hardcoded the
> documentation as plain HTML, trying to come up with a nice way of
> autogenerating it by having some JS that checks whether the components
> were loaded as "the document itself" and if so, generate the
> documentation from the <element> definitions, but finding a clean way
> to include a general description as well as attribute documentation is
> tricky. If anyone has good ides for doing this, I'd be delighted to
> hear from you!
>
> Also, if there's anything on those pages that we did "wrong", or that
> can be done better, I'd also love to hear from you. These things feel
> like game-changers, and making things that use components and custom
> elements is proving extremely fun =)
>
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
>
>