[Bug 15019] [Custom Elements]: Specify a way to build UA HTML elements

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=15019

Dominic Cooney <dominicc@chromium.org> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Dominic Cooney <dominicc@chromium.org> 2012-05-22 01:47:27 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Mozilla (and probably WebKit, too) is interested in building several (all?)
> HTML elements using the component model. Custom elements are a natural fit,
> though there are some things we must understand:
> 
> * how to distinguish in a non-error-prone way whether a custom element is built
> by UA or author.

Can you elaborate what you mean by "built by"? Do you mean "instantiated by" or
"defined by"? Why do you want to distinguish this?

> * how to describe HTML elements as custom elements

It seems that the UA might want to have a sanctified place to process <element>
elements that permits naming non-HTML elements to bootstrap the definitions,
eg.

<element name="body" extends="~*magic*~">…

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Received on Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:47:51 UTC