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Re:Show HN: Tply – a simple typewriter effect for your websites by ichub on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:52PM (#11160772)
If you're wondering about how you would go about using this in your own website, check out the documentation in the github repo here: https://github.com/ichub/tply

If you're wondering how these actually work, browsers just interpret the custom elements as unstyled inline elements, basically as `span`s, which I am free to do with as I wish.

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Re:Show HN: Tply – a simple typewriter effect for your websites by fiatjaf on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @04:45PM (#11162603)
Is that standardized? So why doesn't all those libraries (mostly jQuery libraries) that perform DOM transformation use custom elements, instead of a lot of nested divs with custom classes?
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Re:Show HN: Tply – a simple typewriter effect for your websites by ichub on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @11:27PM (#11164574)
Honestly, I'm not sure. If it was really an issue, it'd be trivial to change the script to render things as nested divs and spans. The appeal of custom elements, at least to me, is that it makes everything more concise and readable. I prefer reading <type>whatever</type> to <div class="type">whatever</div>.
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