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

> You can create a `<table is="sort-table">` with `<tr is="draggable-row">` inside and printers, as well as older browsers, will be able to see data regardless.


I understand this argument, but the thing I don't understand is why you feel that it is so important?  You walk into a Walmart and high definition 4K displays are practically being thrown at us.  Suppose someone has a really old phone and for some reason the display of the table is not coming up.  They can just tap the person next to them and her Google Pixel ....

> This is so simple as concept, and yet I have the feeling that by the time you'll get it it's 2020 and we won't need HTML at all ... is anything happening about this part of the specification?

That's exactly the point.  By the time this is implemented natively by Apple and Google, if ever, no one is going to need this.  

And by need I mean 'need' as in Oxygen.  Most of us have a requirement for that.  I'm not trying to be be 'smart', I'm just pointing out that there are things that are hard requirement, and then there are things that are nice to have, like a Ferrari, but most of us are pretty happy without it still, although I could definitely use a Ferrari.

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