On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:07 AM, Roland Steiner <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On the other hand, it seems likely that some of these xdash names will >> come into multi-party use. For example, the following use cases >> involve xdash names chosen by one party and then used by another: >> >> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Component_Model_Use_Cases#Widget_Mix-and-Match >> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Component_Model_Use_Cases#Contacts_Widget >> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Component_Model_Use_Cases#Like.2F.2B1_Button > > > Since the components that are used on a page are under the control of the > page's author, it should be possible to avoid clashes by separating a > component's definition (potentially pulled from third party) from its tag > registration (done by page author), e.g. > // Importing component definition for Facebook "Like" button > // Importing component definition for Google+ "+1" button > // ... later: > Element.register("x-fb", Facebook.LikeButton) > Element.register("x-gg", GooglePlus.PlusOneButton)
Doesn't it seem more likely that the third-party will do the registration in whatever script you include that implements the Like button, or whatever? Adam >> That's something like 40% of the use cases... >> >> I don't have much of a better suggestion. You're running up against >> all the usual distributed extensibility issues. > > We could use namespaces... *ducks and runs* :D > > Cheers, > - Roland >
