Re: Minimum viable custom elements

> On Feb 4, 2015, at 10:12 AM, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Chris Bateman <chrisb808@gmail.com <mailto:chrisb808@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Yeah, I had noted in that post that wrapping a native element with a custom element was an option - only drawback is that the markup isn't as terse (which is generally advertised as one of the selling points of Custom Elements). But that doesn't seem like a deal breaker to me, if subclassing needs to be postponed.
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> Chris
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> As I pointed out ealier:
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> <input is="x-foo">
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> <x-foo><input></x-foo>
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> seems like barely a ternseness savings worth discussing.

Indeed.  Also, authors are used to the idea of including a fallback content inside an element after canvas and object elements and this fits well with their mental model.

- R. Niwa

Received on Wednesday, 4 February 2015 18:37:03 UTC