Re: [w3c/webcomponents] connectedCallback timing when the document parser creates custom elements (#551)

So hands down, this is what we're going to give a shot, following what we were able to extract from this and other posts on the children/connectedCallback topic.

Comments welcome. Yes, we're aware that it will fail in the edge case which @WebReflection mentioned. If anyone sees any other possible edge case, please let us know.

```javascript
class HTMLBaseElement extends HTMLElement {
  constructor(...args) {
    const self = super(...args)
    self.parsed = false // guard to make it easy to do certain stuff only once
    self.parentNodes = []
    return self
  }

  setup() {
    // collect the parentNodes
    let el = this;
    while (el.parentNode) {
      el = el.parentNode
      this.parentNodes.push(el)
    }
    // check if the parser has already passed the end tag of the component
    // in which case this element, or one of its parents, should have a nextSibling
    // if not (no whitespace at all between tags and no nextElementSiblings either)
    // resort to DOMContentLoaded or load having triggered
    if ([this, ...this.parentNodes].some(el=> el.nextSibling) || document.readyState !== 'loading') {
      this.childrenAvailableCallback();
    } else {
      this.mutationObserver = new MutationObserver(() => {
        if (this.nextSibling || this.parentNode.nextSibling || document.readyState !== 'loading') {
          this.childrenAvailableCallback()
          this.mutationObserver.disconnect()
        }
      });

      this.mutationObserver.observe(this, {childList: true});
    }
  }
}

class MyComponent extends HTMLBaseElement {
  constructor(...args) {
    const self = super(...args)
    return self
  }

  connectedCallback() {
    // when connectedCallback has fired, call super.setup()
    // which will determine when it is safe to call childrenAvailableCallback()
    super.setup()
  }

  childrenAvailableCallback() {
    // this is where you do your setup that relies on child access
    console.log(this.children)
    
    // when setup is done, make this information accessible to the element
    this.parsed = true
    // this is useful e.g. to only ever attach event listeners to child
    // elements once using this as a guard
  }
}

customElements.define('my-component', MyComponent)
```



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