[hiimshort]

The last example reminds me of the once-proposed html imports feature. It was being pushed by Google back when Polymer was a thing and would've given us actual web components delivered as html documents with full support for html, css, and js just like we use normally. If I remember correctly there were a few issues with the approach that needed to be resolved and nobody stepped up to make it a reality. So instead we got the custom elements spec years later which only implemented a small percentage of what made html imports useful.

[troupo]

In the end it was only Firefox who implemented HTML Imports, and Google has gone mad and pushed everything in to Javascript.

[spankalee]

That is not what happened at all. Firefox never shipped HTML Imports.

[troupo]

Well I'll be! In my mind I had this clear picture of Firefox implementing it.

It correct, it was only Chrome: https://caniuse.com/?search=html%20import

[hinkley]

They went Golden Hammer on v8.