Re: [webcomponents] Inheritance in Custom Elements (Was Proposal for Cross Origin Use Case and Declarative Syntax) from Elliott Sprehn on 2013-12-10 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@chromium.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:21:45 -0800
To: Brendan Eich <brendan@secure.meer.net>
Cc: Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa@apple.com>, Dominic Cooney <dominicc@google.com>, Hajime Morrita <morrita@google.com>, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@chromium.org>, "public-webapps@w3.org WG" <public-webapps@w3.org>, Jan Miksovsky <jan@quickui.org>
Message-ID: <CAO9Q3iK+p_jQJqHkOPn06hyveRoeXTeucbtqZpnxmF70pMq5fg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan@secure.meer.net>wrote:

> Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>
>> As for the social "endorse" button, I've never seen a popular SNS share
>> buttons implemented using HTML button elements; most of them add their own
>> DOM to add icons, etc...
>>
>
> Right you are. And there's a deeper reason why "like" ("endorse", LOL)
> buttons use iframes: the ability to set 3rd party cookies.

They don't actually need to be able to set cookies, but they do need to be
able to _read_ them. For example some widgets show your username and your
face next to the button so it'd say: "Like this as +Elliott Sprehn", or
"Leave a comment as Elliott".

- E

Received on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 04:22:55 UTC