On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Domenic Denicola <d...@domenic.me> wrote:
> From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com] > >> Shouldn't we throw in this case because the concert type of "somename" is >> HTMLUnknownElement? > > Yes, that's exactly the current design. Hidden a bit: > > https://github.com/domenic/element-constructors/blob/master/element-constructors.js#L4 > > This still leaves the potential hazard of someone doing `new > HTMLUnknownElement("somename")` and their code breaking later once "someone" > becomes a real tag... hopefully the "Unknown" is a bit more of a deterrent > though? Or, we could always throw an exception in the constructor of HTMLUnknownElement so that nobody could do it. It would mean that libraries and frameworks that do support custom elements without "-" would have to use document.createElement but that might be a good thing since they wouldn't be doing that in the first place. - R. Niwa
