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? Peter McGoron (11 Aug 2026 14:44 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Jakub T. Jankiewicz (12 Aug 2026 15:37 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (12 Aug 2026 18:45 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Maxim Cournoyer (17 Aug 2026 00:29 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (17 Aug 2026 14:17 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Arthur A. Gleckler (17 Aug 2026 18:55 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (17 Aug 2026 21:42 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Maxim Cournoyer (18 Aug 2026 01:35 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (18 Aug 2026 04:17 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Maxim Cournoyer (18 Aug 2026 02:01 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (19 Aug 2026 18:31 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (20 Aug 2026 00:59 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Maxim Cournoyer (21 Aug 2026 00:54 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (21 Aug 2026 10:49 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Peter McGoron (21 Aug 2026 13:06 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Vincent Manis (he/him) (21 Aug 2026 16:38 UTC)
Re: HTML Custom Elements to help in SRFI writing? Artyom Bologov (22 Aug 2026 03:45 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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