Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing?
Artyom Bologov 11 Aug 2026 05:47 UTC
Hi Marc,
> With custom elements, you lose all your semantic markup. To remedy this, you would have to sprinkle your code with so many `aria-` attributes
> that the benefit would turn into the opposite. Custom elements were created for use in web applications where there is no problem filling in all
> these `aria-` attributes using JavaScript, not for static HTML pages.
This is fair! Custom elements are indeed aimed at applications. So
thanks for re-iterating on that 😌
Best of love,
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Artyom Bologov
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