On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, John Barton wrote:
>
> See the implemention in es6-module-loader:
> https://github.com/ModuleLoader/es6-module-loader/blob/master/lib/system.js#L117
Ah, fascinating. So basically:
- "normalize" does relative URL logic based on the current base URL and
the referrer (i.e. the URL of the script doing the importing).
- "locate" resolves that URL and adds ".js" (only if the last segment
is part of the "path" part of the URL and doesn't contain a "."?).
Is that more or less right? (There's also the loader.paths stuff. Why is
that in "locate" rather than "normalize"?)
(BTW, I noticed that both in that code above and in the spec, "referrer"
is consistently misspelt as "referer", the HTTP way.)
I'm exploring some ways that the module system could be extended on the
Web platform. One thing that some people have asked for is ways to
declaratively import stylesheets and the like from inside script, as in:
import sprites from "images.png";
...where sprites gives you access to an Image element (<img>).
For some cases, e.g. style sheets, you really want to provide more
information than just a name, so we'd presumably have the import statement
use an element's ID to do the lookup, as in:
<link rel=stylesheet href="foo.css" id=foo-styles ...>
import styles from "foo-styles"; // gets us a reference to the <link>
// element somehow
Presumably, the way this works is the "locate" hook returns the actual
HTMLLinkElement. But what does the "normalize" hook return? It can't
return a URL, since then "locate" and "fetch" won't know to not fetch
anything. Is there any way to return out-of-band data with the normalized
name? (Really I think "normalize" and "locate" should probably be one
hook, which returns either a URL or an object. Having them split,
especially with the caching happening off a key in the middle, is quite
difficult to map to the Web platform.)
One option that jorendorff suggested in #whatwg is that if you want to
refer to a local ID, you use "#foo", as in:
import styles from "#foo-styles";
This kind of approach has historically been problematic (see the history
of usemap="" for example), but I don't see a better solution.
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