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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by dandonkulous on Friday June 15, 2012 @03:45PM (#4118327)
1) Mozilla is generating a stock set of components that you wont have to "scour" for. 2) The components can be easily included using an app bootstrap builder that the Mozilla Marketplace dev hub will feature 3) You write the tags like you would any other in HTML, there is not complex copy or paste operation... 4) You can use components without modifying them, #4 is a red herring

Another huge benefit: the polyfill is 2k compressed composed of pure, library-independent JS

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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by dandonkulous on Friday June 15, 2012 @03:58PM (#4118394)
@MatthewPhillips - That's not what I meant. Mozilla will offer a bootstrap builder with which you can add as many of the stock tags/components as you want to your app's pages. It will output a skeleton of an app that is development-ready. We will be actively working on getting the stock set of components prominently offered in other app bootstraps and store dev areas.
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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by MatthewPhillips on Friday June 15, 2012 @04:04PM (#4118417)
Understand now, that would still be very valuable.
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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by MatthewPhillips on Friday June 15, 2012 @03:52PM (#4118365)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, doesn't this mean I can use x-foo without including its js if x-foo is in the marketplace? That would be amazing.
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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by dandonkulous on Friday June 15, 2012 @04:07PM (#4118427)
Correct, Mozilla Marketplace is not putting X-Tags in all apps. The dev tooling side of Marketplace will offer a project builder that let's you pick which tags (if any) you'd like to include. It then bundles all the assets you pick into one compressed file and spits out a zip containing a skeletal project with all the script tag and asset references preset for you in the pages.
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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by kumar303 on Friday June 15, 2012 @04:00PM (#4118403)
The Marketplace is just the "app store" -- it's where you buy apps. You can run the apps on any supported HTML5 device after buying them. So the supported device would not provide anything more than a browser rendering engine (and some navigator.* JS methods). It won't include x-tags.
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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by MatthewPhillips on Friday June 15, 2012 @04:03PM (#4118412)
I'm aware, I submitted an app already :-).

I'm confused about what he meant about the marketplace having a "bootstrap builder" for x-tags.

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Re:X-Tag - a cross-browser web components library by jlongster on Friday June 15, 2012 @04:19PM (#4118491)
We're working on a bootstrap that you can download to quickly start developing app, and it will include x-tags (with all components). There will also be a "builder" where you can customize your version of x-tags to only include the components you want.

So the bootstrap gets you up and running quickly, and the builder is a web-based tool that lets you optimize your build of x-tags when it goes into production.

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