Re: Minimum viable custom elements

Anne, maybe you could write on the wiki what the current Web Components
implementation in Chrome is using. That would make it a bit easier to
follow for people who didn't follow all of the discussion so far.

Kenneth

On Thu Jan 15 2015 at 5:05:35 PM Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com>
> wrote:
> > FWIW, I think that element upgrade is sort of fundamental to the
> usefulness
> > of custom elements. In a world where most scripts are non-blocking
> (that's
> > hopefully the modern world we should aim for), I'll effectively expect to
> > walk the tree anyway.
> >
> > And if I walk the tree anyway, what's the point of custom elements in the
> > first place? One of the key features (at least, to me) of custom elements
> > was being able to harness the HTML Parser to instantiate your object
> tree.
> > If that's not going happen consistently, then I am not sure custom
> elements
> > are worth the trouble. IOW, if you're walking the tree, just do the work
> of
> > callbacks as you encounter dash-separated elements.
>
> My rationale is this:
>
> * Unlike you I think lifecycle callbacks are the main selling point of
> a custom element. They give you access to hooks that normal elements
> have but are not otherwise exposed.
> * I think we could iterate towards a v2 that has an aspect of
> upgrading but perhaps works a bit differently from the current setup.
> E.g. a way to include an entire subtree of custom elements with a
> fallback mechanism of sorts. Or perhaps something inspired by
> JavaScript modules.
> * Upgrading can be added, but moving from Brain transplants to a more
> normal working constructor would be impossible after the fact.
>
> Now, given the discussion so far, it does seem that synchronous or
> almost-synchronous constructors have a number of hard issues and it's
> not entirely clear to me anymore those are worth pushing over Brain
> transplant or Dummy replacement, using the terminology from:
>
>   https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/CustomElements#Upgrading
>
>
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