HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Ashley Gullen
I was a little surprised to read Mozilla don't plan on shipping HTML imports and will re-evaluate after modules are supported: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/12/mozilla-and-web-components/ Why would modules affect the decision to ship HTML imports? Imports get you: - the ability to import style

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/15/14, 1:10 PM, Ashley Gullen wrote: Why would modules affect the decision to ship HTML imports? Because the interaction of the various import systems with each other needs to be specified, for one thing. But more to the point, we're not shipping imports because we've gotten feedback

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Arthur Barstow
On 12/15/14 2:09 PM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: On 12/15/14, 1:10 PM, Ashley Gullen wrote: Why would modules affect the decision to ship HTML imports? Because the interaction of the various import systems with each other needs to be specified, for one thing. But more to the point, we're not

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Arthur Barstow art.bars...@gmail.com wrote: Does [Bugzilla] capture all of Mozilla's Imports concerns (or at least the higher priority issues)? If not, who should I contact to request capturing your concerns? The high-order bit is that Mozilla is not interested

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Ashley Gullen
On 15 December 2014 at 19:09, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: But more to the point, we're not shipping imports because we've gotten feedback from a number of people that imports are not solving the problems they actually need solved. We'd prefer to not ship imports and then need to

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Brian Kardell
Very generally: this is actually why I said way back that a lot of things seem like prollyfills (we hope that's the future) rather than polyfills (it's a done deal) and advocated we make sure it's a future-safe, forward compatible approach. On Dec 15, 2014 4:06 PM, Ashley Gullen ash...@scirra.com

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Brendan Eich
Ashley Gullen wrote: On 15 December 2014 at 19:09, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu mailto:bzbar...@mit.edu wrote: But more to the point, we're not shipping imports because we've gotten feedback from a number of people that imports are not solving the problems they actually need

Re: HTML imports in Firefox

2014-12-15 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 12/15/14, 3:09 PM, Arthur Barstow wrote: Does [Bugzilla] capture all of Mozilla's Imports concerns (or at least the higher priority issues)? Not yet. We've just gotten things sorted out on our end. If not, who should I contact to request capturing your concerns? I think Anne's email