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by throw_m239339 1842 days ago
CSS scoping without a hacky third party framework is long overdue.

Web components largely failed at this point though, the spec needs to be rewritten from scratch to be more pragmatic. People have been using React and Co for more than a decade now, spec writers certainly have enough hindsight as to how people practically program front-end applications.
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mook 1842 days ago
People have been using XBL in Mozilla before all the web components work started, so… I wouldn't hold my breath.

Looking it up, archive.org says it's been over 20 years… https://web.archive.org/web/20001218094100/https://www.mozil...

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lenkite 1841 days ago
Please give me web-components without Javascript and I'll start using them heavily.
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throw_m239339 1836 days ago
well, it was kind of the whole point of XHTML2 spec. The Web component spec is just an inferior version of it, that's why it failed.
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earthboundkid 1842 days ago
Web components are a great brand for a collection of mostly awful APIs. Shadow DOM in particular should have just been a CSS property from the start. Glad to see someone starting to recognize this.
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earthboundkid 1842 days ago
Never-mind, read the link. It's just shoveling more crap on top of the existing shadow DOM instead of finally just cutting bait and making a CSS property called `inherit: reset;` like they should have done to begin with.
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