1281422 - Web Components | MDN should not suggest Document.registerElement is part of specification

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: API: DOM, defect)

Description

[Adrian Aichner [:anaran]]

Document.registerElement is NOT part of Web Components specifications, contrary to what is stated below.

See these links:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/registerElement

  referenced from

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components

Details:

The Web Components specifications define the following items:

    New HTML elements: <template> and <shadow> (<element>, <content> and <decorator> have been removed)
    The associated API interfaces for the new elements: HTMLTemplateElement, HTMLContentElement (removed from spec) and HTMLShadowElement
    Extensions to the HTMLLinkElement interface and the <link> element
    An API for registering custom elements, Document.registerElement(), and modifications of Document.createElement() and Document.createElementNS()

http://mzl.la/1vxCDgA

Comment 1

[BMO Automation]

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