For those still interested in subclassing elements, I've posted a possible solution for web component subclasses <https://github.com/JanMiksovsky/base-template>. I'd prefer a native, standard solution to this problem, but until that becomes possible, perhaps this can make do.
On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 2:07:58 AM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote: > > Yes, I would love this feature to return. Not having it is probably the > single most annoying thing with using Polymer for me. > > I started designing an extensible set of UI components in the brief period > when the feature was available and it was great! However, shortly > afterwards it was removed and I had to instead use containment, which for a > lot of situations is not nearly so neat. It seems completely logical to me > to be able to inherit the basic look/layout of a component when creating > another component that extends from it. > > I'm not entirely sure why the feature was removed as it worked well. I > think I read somewhere that other browsers were having trouble implementing > it, but if Chrome managed it, I can't see why they couldn't. > > Here's hoping there's some news of it's return soon! > > Mark > > > On Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 4:36:58 PM UTC+1, Jan Miksovsky wrote: >> >> In porting a component framework to custom elements, I've hit a >> significant hurdle in creating a custom element that can both derive from, >> and populate the visual presentation of, a base element. Because the >> problem description got more involved than can comfortably fit in a >> discussion board post, I've written a blog post on the problem: >> http://blog.quickui.org/2013/06/11/puzzle-define-html-custom-element-subclasses-that-can-fill-in-base-class-insertion-points/ >> . >> >> Any thoughts or suggestions from this community would be much appreciated! >> > Follow Polymer on Google+: plus.google.com/107187849809354688692 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Polymer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/polymer-dev/35459fd7-4387-4d74-a2c9-764c8444c9ae%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
