- From: Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:02:06 -0800
- To: Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com>
- Cc: Daniel Buchner <daniel@mozilla.com>, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com> wrote:
> 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'
> ...
Can you help me understand why we need to do this? Since there is no
HTMLHeaderPrototype, we will never have an issue with forming the
wrong prototype chain. So <header is="fancy-header"> should work just
as well as <section is="fancy-header">, and so would <fancy-header>.
:DG<
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