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		90s_dev 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plain Vanilla Web At that point you're not using HTML anymore, you're just calling html() in a fancy way, and that's the whole point of the complaint, that custom-elements are not good at being plain HTML even though that's like its whole thing.

kybernetikos 5 months ago | [–]

Normal HTML elements don't exclusively use HTML attributes either. Surely you've used button.onclick or element.classList or element.innerHTML?

spankalee 5 months ago | [–]

Being plain HTML is important for the user of the element.

That the element may use a library for its implementation is basically irrelevant.

90s_dev 5 months ago | [–]

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