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by pfraze 4467 days ago
Yeah, good thoughts, time will tell. We could go back and forth on some of the finer points, but that's better over a beer than a forum.

The scoping and the interface-definition are certainly the most promising aspects of this. I'm still very skeptical of using the DOM for non-UI purposes, but it could work out and that would be great. But even if not, even if it's just for GUI tasks, it's a win. I know bootstrap's components make life much easier in the common cases, and the concept is similar (but cleaner) here.

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Beers!

It's 100% bizarre to think about elements that don't render UI. Honestly, I'm still wrapping my head around it.

If you think about it though, there are plenty examples today that don't render UI (directly) but serve a specific purpose: <script>, <meta>, <html>, <style>, <head>, <title>, <link>, ....

Search for "display: none": http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/blink/trunk/Source/core/css/h...

Interesting times indeed.