HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (11 Aug 2026 03:01 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (11 Aug 2026 05:29 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (11 Aug 2026 05:47 UTC)

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 😌

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