Kevin Smith wrote:
FWIW, in my estimation, tagless template strings which interpolate by
default are one of the top 5 usability improvements in ES6.
Agreed.
Dave's point, that the use-cases for tagless template strings outnumber
innerHTML XSS-concern use-cases by a large factor, is important.
Doug Crockford observed that template strings won over String.format in
large part because of greater opportunity for safer APIs. But this cut
both ways, since removing tagless template strings will not necessarily
make everone use
str`a ${b} c`
where they could have used
`a ${b} c`
with an appropriate str binding. And adding such a str binding will, by
the safety-first argument, lead people away from
html`a ${b} c`
Making the str name longer and harder to use will simply leave people
inventing String.format libraries.
As always, unusable but safer APIs should be viewed as unsafe because
not usable, so not used.
The committee did not reach an agreement, but we will keep working to
serve the most common use-cases. I think this must mean tagless template
strings that interpolate, as proposed and accepted for ES6.
/be
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