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phillipseamore
Safari has support for "is" attribute now?
ceving
Probably not. But the global attribute "is" is not necessary. It is just a bit more obvious.
drivingmenuts
Is it necessary to use a web component to do what you could do with a snippet of Javascript? What is the use case for this?
ceving
I had a snippet in my HTML for this. But the snippet was rejected by a content security policy.
tomcam
Could it be that this serves another purpose, perhaps showing something close to the minimum code that's required to create a web component?
eternityforest
Seems like it pretty much is a tiny snippet of JavaScript, it's just all professional and standardized and best-practices-y
moritzwarhier
Also, as a JS developer, even if you want to auto-update the end year to the current one, why would you do that on the client? To make the layout shift? Or to display (c) 2024-2038 on clients with wrong date settings?

If it's statically generated, add the year at build time. If it's server-generated and dynamic, don't do it in JS I guess? I mean, why? It has only downsides.

tomcam
Excellent example for someone trying to wrap their arms around web components.
cranberryturkey
this code isn't what's rendered. there's something about `this.textContent - ${year}` but that's not what we're seeing in output.
throwaway143829
Yeah, I'm very confused by this. Why is the example also showing a hard-coded 2023 in the component usage? Shouldn't the component be responsible for rendering that?
sphars
I believe it's because the `${this.textContent} - ${year}` will render it as `2023 - 2024`. The hardcoded 2023 can be whatever you want as to indicate the start of the copyright.
KTibow
Is there a good reason to use a shadow root for this instead of just directly setting innerText
dannye
Only when you really want to encapsulate style or ensure GUI.

This should/could be part of a generic <app-footer) Web Component which ensures all that required is required.

We use a single <app-footer> for over 15 projects, it extracts domain namens to set the correct links.

Its value showed when we needed (basic) A/B tracking on all sites, we only had to edit this one <app-footer> file

vwelling
When claiming copyright, you should mention the date of first publication and if applicable, the last significant revision. Not the current date.
floydnoel
Q) what is the purpose of the copyright year?

A) to always show the current year, apparently!

rothos
Correct. A later year is actually a weaker claim to the copyright.
jjice
Tangential, but what's the state of web components at the moment? As a backend engineer, they were very appealing early on since I didn't want to deal with adding an entire framework onto a simple project. How'd that work out? It seems like the big frameworks are still kind by a mile and they provide a much easier developer experience still. Am I wrong there?
throwaway63467
I don’t think they will go anywhere, too many different concepts and technologies have been packaged without clear goals. Some concepts like shadow DOM are useful in other contexts though, but templating and data binding is botched in my opinion.