Re: [webcomponents]: HTMLElementElement missing a primitive

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com> wrote:

> I also want to keep ES6 classes in mind. Presumably in declarative form I
> declare my class as if it extends nothing. Will 'super' still work in that
> case?
>

If you extend nothing (null) as in:

class Foo extends null {
  m() {
    super();
  }
}

super calls will deref null which throws as expected.

Maybe I don't understand what you are asking?


>
> Scott
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Mostly it's cognitive dissonance. It will be easy to trip over the fact
>> that both things involve a user-supplied prototype, but they are required
>> to be critically different objects.
>>
>> Also it's hard for me to justify why this difference should exist. If the
>> idea is that element provides extra convenience, then why not make the
>> imperative form convenient? If it's important to be able to do your own
>> prototype marshaling, then won't this feature be missed in declarative form?
>>
>> I'm wary of defanging the declarative form completely. But I guess I want
>> to break it down first before we build it up, if that makes any sense.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Erik Arvidsson <arv@chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If you have a tag name it is easy to get the prototype.
>>>
>>> var tmp = elementElement.ownerDocument.createElement(tagName);
>>> var prototype = Object.getPrototypeOf(tmp);
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Scott Miles <sjmiles@google.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> Currently, if I document.register something, it's my job to supply a
>>> >> complete prototype.
>>> >>
>>> >> For HTMLElementElement on the other hand, I supply a tag name to
>>> extend, and
>>> >> the prototype containing the extensions, and the system works out the
>>> >> complete prototype.
>>> >>
>>> >> However, this ability of HTMLElementElement to construct a complete
>>> >> prototype from a tag-name is not provided by any imperative API.
>>> >>
>>> >> As I see it, there are three main choices:
>>> >>
>>> >> 1. HTMLElementElement is recast as a declarative form of
>>> document.register,
>>> >> in which case it would have no 'extends' attribute, and you need to
>>> make
>>> >> your own (complete) prototype.
>>> >>
>>> >> 2. We make a new API for 'construct prototype from a tag-name to
>>> extend and
>>> >> a set of extensions'.
>>> >>
>>> >> 3. Make document.register work like HTMLElementElement does now (it
>>> takes a
>>> >> tag-name and partial prototype).
>>> >
>>> > 4. Let declarative syntax be a superset of the imperative API.
>>> >
>>> > Can you help me understand why you feel that imperative and
>>> > declarative approaches must mirror each other exactly?
>>> >
>>> > :DG<
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> erik
>>>
>>
>>
>


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erik