I think that only makes sense if 'this.import()' worked for
script-tags-marked-as-modules in general. If the general case supported it,
then it should just work for HTML imports.

OTOH, I think System.import() is clearer.

jjb


On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Matthew Robb <matthewwr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would there be any problems treating the html import as a virtual module
> itself. Giving all scripts inside the sub document the module context
> object as its this binding? Then to do any additional loading you'd need to
> do this.import().
> On Aug 18, 2014 6:56 PM, "John Barton" <johnjbar...@google.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Ian Hickson <i...@hixie.ch> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > > > > Now, in the main page, you reference the HTML import:
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > >    <link rel=import href="foo.html">
>>> > > > >
>>> > > > > Now how would you refer to the modules? We can't have #b refer to
>>> > > > > it, since the scope of IDs is per-document, and the import has a
>>> > > > > separate document.
>>>
>>
>>
>> ...
>>> HTML imports and regular documents share a Window object, but have
>>> separate Documents objects. You can find out more about them here:
>>>
>>>    http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/imports/
>>
>>
>> If they share a Window object then they should share a Loader, but they
>> may have different baseURLs. So for you example above we write eg.
>>
>> import {b} from "./b";
>>
>> because the scripts in the HTML import will have names relative to the
>> same default baseURL as the main document. So I guess URL space is like
>>
>>   http://example.com/index.html
>>   http://example.com/foo.html
>>   http://example.com/b.js
>>
>> I suppose it would be more common for the component to be in a
>> subdirectory, eg
>>
>>   http://example.com/index.html
>>    http://example.com/foo/theFoo.html
>>   http://example.com/foo/b.js
>>
>> so the import would be
>>
>> import {b} from "./foo/b";
>>
>> I think we could also imagine that such an import declaration could be
>> used without the HTML Import declaration. The fetch() call will ask for
>> "<baseURL>/foo/b.js" and the server will say "hey that's in an HMTL Import"
>> and serve text/html. The fetch() hook will have to detect this and process
>> the HTML Import, then continue with the loading process.  This much I'm
>> just making up.
>>
>> jjb
>>
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