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What are you talking about? There is hardly any API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/... It is extremely simple.



First time reading this.

On one hand it looks neat. This is something i expected browsers to be able to do since i noticed that Mozilla (pre-Firefox) implemented <blink> (or <marquee>?) in JavaScript.

On the other hand it looks like it'll become much harder for JavaScript-less environments to extract data from web-pages as now an article on a news site could be something like <news-article id="23848923"> and the JavaScript side will do the rest.

But being able to do something like <my-fancy-button caption="Go To Google" target="http://google.com/"> that in the background creates all the canvases and such needed will be neat.


>On the other hand it looks like it'll become much harder for JavaScript-less environments to extract data from web-pages as now an article on a news site could be something like <news-article id="23848923"> and the JavaScript side will do the rest.

This is already the case on a lot of sites, just not standardized. With the standard you could sandbox the javascript or maybe implement specific parsing for the most common web components.


Oh, wait for webassembly, that's gonna be fun.




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