Re: custom elements without the dash

2015-01-05 Thread Steve Faulkner 
yeah, it was just explained to me by Mike Smith:
"standard custom-elements APIs is that the API doesn’t allow them register
custom elements without a dash"

which I did not know :-)

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On 5 January 2015 at 14:10, Anne van Kesteren  wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Steve Faulkner 
> wrote:
> > I understand why, its the zillions of developers out there who don't or
> > don't care, either they are given good reasons not to do it in language
> they
> > understand and is meaningful to them or they ignore requirement and it
> > becomes useless.
>
> If they ignore the requirement they don't get custom elements...
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Re: custom elements without the dash

2015-01-05 Thread Anne van Kesteren 
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Steve Faulkner  wrote:
> I understand why, its the zillions of developers out there who don't or
> don't care, either they are given good reasons not to do it in language they
> understand and is meaningful to them or they ignore requirement and it
> becomes useless.

If they ignore the requirement they don't get custom elements...


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Re: custom elements without the dash

2015-01-05 Thread Steve Faulkner 
On 5 January 2015 at 13:59, Jirka Kosek  wrote:

> Since there are no namespaces (in XML sense) in HTML language prefixes
> are used instead as a mechanism to prevent clash with future
> standardized element names.
>

I understand why, its the zillions of developers out there who don't or
don't care, either they are given good reasons not to do it in language
they understand and is meaningful to them or they ignore requirement and it
becomes useless.

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SteveF

Re: custom elements without the dash

2015-01-05 Thread Jirka Kosek 
On 5.1.2015 14:42, Steve Faulkner wrote:
> Suggest the reasons for not doing so need to be better articulated.

Since there are no namespaces (in XML sense) in HTML language prefixes
are used instead as a mechanism to prevent clash with future
standardized element names.

Jirka

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Re: custom elements without the dash

2015-01-05 Thread Steve Faulkner 
>
> It's already mentioned in that Twitter thread. If somebody created
>  we could then never standardize an element using that name.


Sure, but that's not a possibility that has any immediate effect upon a
developer, as I said I suggest the consequences of doing so need to be
better articulated (in the spec?).

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On 5 January 2015 at 13:51, Anne van Kesteren  wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Steve Faulkner 
> wrote:
> > Why force hyphen in custom elements?
>
> It's already mentioned in that Twitter thread. If somebody created
>  we could then never standardize an element using that name.
>
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Re: custom elements without the dash

2015-01-05 Thread Anne van Kesteren 
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Steve Faulkner  wrote:
> Why force hyphen in custom elements?

It's already mentioned in that Twitter thread. If somebody created
 we could then never standardize an element using that name.


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