Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
by arcbyte on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:40PM
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The browsers really need to make it possible to use templates and slots without javascript at all. There's no reason I shouldn't be able to define and use a custom element using HTML alone.
Until then I don't know if template and slot will take off.
Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
by no_wizard on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:34PM
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This is what everyone in userland clamors for as a baseline. Decade plus old arguments about this.
I have little hope this will happen
Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
by verisimilidude on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:02PM
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Fully agreed.
Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
by lenkite on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:12PM
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We had HTML imports and they got rid of it. No JS means No Ads.
Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
by no_wizard on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:30PM
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It means less invasive tracking really, not no ads.
Ironically it was Firefox that killed it, not Google. Google was all in on HTML imports. It would have also given a non JS way to dynamically load HTML. Streaming would have been great with this.
Re:If Web Components are so great, why am I not using them?
by adjav on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:50PM
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HTML imports required JS to be used - otherwise all you had was a `link`ed DOM tree that you couldn't access. No one has really proposed a way to dynamically load anything without JS AFAIK.
The tech is fine. You can achieve amazing progressive enhancement with web components by understanding and effectively using <template> and <slot>. However, many web component developers never learn this.
The problem you’re describing is a training/marketing issue, as discussed in the post.