On 13/06/2015 16:33, Bruce Lawson wrote:
On 13 June 2015 at 15:30, Léonie Watson <lwat...@paciellogroup.com> wrote:
why not use the extends= syntax you mentioned?
<my-button extends="button" attributes>Push</my-button>
because browsers that don't know about web components wouldn't pay any
attention to <my-button>, and render "Push" as plain text.
Browsers that don't know about web components will fall back to
<button> with <button
this-is-made-much-more-marvellous-by="my-button"> (or whatever)
However, this fallback will only really be useful for very simple cases,
where web components have been used to jazz up what essentially is still
the element that was extended. And, I would posit, any scripting that
was done to act on the all-singing, all-dancing new web component button
(if it does anything more than a regular button) would not work for the
fallback. Unless it's really just using web components for fancy styling
(for instance having a "material design" button that essentially still
works just like a button) - in which case, it makes more sense to work
on stylability of standard elements.
P
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