Re: Are web components *seriously* not namespaced?

Can either of you provide an example in layman's terms?

I don't quite understand what this will look like.

G.

On 2015/02/05 00:29, William Edney wrote:
> Glen -
>
> Glenn has the answer.
>
> So we're going to come up with yet-another-registry rather than use 
> one that already exists and guarantees (at least as far can be 
> guaranteed) uniqueness: DNS.
>
> The ramifications of not making HTML5 be XHTML5 will be with us for a 
> very long time indeed.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Bill
>
> On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglazkov@google.com 
> <mailto:dglazkov@google.com>> wrote:
>
>     The proposed solution is using registries:
>     https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=24578
>
>     The registry API hasn't been spec'd yet.
>
>     :DG<
>
>     On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Glen <glen.84@gmail.com
>     <mailto:glen.84@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I know I'm rather late to the party, but I've been doing a lot
>         of reading lately about web components and related
>         technologies, and the one thing that confounds me is the fact
>         that web components appear not to have any "real" namespacing.
>
>         Can someone explain why this is so, and what the justification
>         is? Or is it just a case of "it was too complicated, this is
>         good enough"?
>
>         I see this has been brought up once before @
>         http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2013AprJun/0964.html,
>         but nothing changed.
>
>         It's not going to be long before <x-tabs> has been defined by
>         1,000,000 people (slight exaggeration), and you have no idea
>         what it is or where it came from without looking through
>         imports/scripts etc. Also you want to keep things short, so
>         you call your element <ms-panel> (you work for Monkey
>         Solutions LLC), but then someone else on the team is importing
>         <ms-panel> from Microsoft, and BAM!, you have another problem.
>
>         Why can't we do something like this?
>
>         <!-- /scripts/monkey-solutions/panel.js -->
>         <script>
>             var panel = document.registerElement("panel", {
>                 namespace: "ms https://monkey-solutions.com/namespace"
>             });
>         </script>
>
>         <!-- /scripts/microsoft/panel.js -->
>         <script>
>             var panel = document.registerElement("panel", {
>                 namespace: "ms https://microsoft.com/namespace"
>             });
>         </script>
>
>         <!-- Uses last defined element, as it currently works. -->
>         <ms-panel>
>
>         <!-- Redefine the namespace prefix for one of the custom
>         elements. -->
>         <element name="panel"
>         namespace="https://microsoft.com/namespace" prefix="msft" />
>
>         <ms-panel>
>         <msft-panel>
>
>         You could also assign a prefix to all elements within a
>         namespace like this:
>
>         <element name="*" namespace="https://microsoft.com/namespace"
>         prefix="msft" />
>
>         You can override the prefix multiple times and the closest
>         <element> definition is used.
>
>         Please note that the above syntax is just an example of what
>         could be used.
>
>         Another BIG pro here is that IDEs can pull in information
>         about the elements by sending an HTTP request to the namespace
>         URI so that a tooltip could be displayed with an element
>         description, author, sample usage, etc.
>
>         I really do hope that it's not too late to make such a change.
>
>         Regards,
>
>         Glen.
>
>
>