Re: [webcomponents] linking using <link rel="components" href="...">?

Hi Mike, the spec you're looking for is under development here:
https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/components/index.html

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Mike Kamermans <nihongo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I searched the archive at
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/ and checked out
> the
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/templates/index.html#definitions
> and
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/custom/index.html
> specs, but couldn't find anything about this in them:
>
> are there provisions in the spec (or is it in the works) to add a new
> link type so that if some person A defines a stack of useful
> templates, and person B wants to use those templates, they can include
> them on their own page using <link rel="templates"
> href="http://personA/templates.html"> (or rel="components", or some
> other relation name that makes sense for the role the link plays)?  I
> was thinking about this in terms of using web components for something
> like Mozilla's Popcorn Maker, where it would be really cool if we
> could define all our components as templates, and then tell everyone
> "this is our collection of templates, go grab
> popcorn.webmaker.org/templates.html if you want to use these on your
> own pages!". I really love the idea of web components, but it feels
> like being able to share them in the same way you can share .js or
> ..css files would make them ridiculously powerful on the future web =)
>
> - Mike "Pomax" Kamermans
> Mozilla Foundation
>
>
>