No, I hadn't. Let me digest this thread. Much of what I'm implicitly asking has already been discussed. I'll repost if I have anything to add here. Apologies for the noise.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rn...@webkit.org> wrote: > Have you looked > at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011OctDec/0663.html ? > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Rafael Weinstein <rafa...@google.com> > wrote: >> >> The main points of contention in the discussion about the template element >> are >> >> 1) By what mechanism are its content elements 'inert' >> 2) Do template contents reside in the document, or outside of it >> >> What doesn't appear to be controversial is the parser changes which >> would allow the template element to have arbitrary top-level content >> elements. >> >> I'd like to propose that we add DocumentFragment.innerHTML which >> parses markup into elements without a context element. This has come >> up in the past, and is in itself a useful feature. The problem it >> solves is allowing templating systems to create DOM from markup >> without having to "sniff" the content and only innerHTML on an >> appropriate parent element (Yehuda can speak more to this). >> >> The parser changes required for this are a subset of the changes that >> Dimitri uncovered here: >> >> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/spec/templates/index.html >> >> And I've uploaded a webkit patch which implements them here: >> >> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84646 >> >> I'm hoping this is a sensible way to make progress. Thoughts? >> >