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668: Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes

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Jake Archibald joins us to discuss HTML includes, potential solutions, and the implications of introducing such a feature. We talk about security concerns, performance implications, and community feedback regarding HTML imports.

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Jake Archibald

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Engineer at Shopify. Once swam to the end of an infinity pool.

Time Jump Links

  • 00:28 Importing Jake_Archibald.html
  • 01:41 Is there such a thing as an HTML include?
  • 09:23 Why can't we pave the cowpath instead of forcing devs to reach for tooling?
  • 14:38 Requiring what you include to be a complete tree
  • 19:41 You can't stop a feature just because people might do bad with it
  • 22:34 Could you import things inside an import?
  • 24:31 What about security problems?
  • 29:26 Why are people against this idea?
  • 34:06 What about streaming?
  • 45:51 Mozilla killed HTML imports in 2014 - how is this different?
  • 59:44 What will it be called?
  • 03:55 Breaking Jack news!

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