Why is content not a property an requires attribute style binding $=?

[lbustelo]

Would be nice if content could be set using property binding in a dom-bind template. Right now it requires $=. At the very least, the README needs to reflect that requirement.

[tomalec]

Good point @lbustelo, thanks!
I'll try to make it in some spare time. In meantime I've updated README to match current implementation.

[tomalec]

Hopefully it could benefit in performance with Polymer 1.x, the question is how it applies to Polymer 2.0 Template binding.

[tomalec]

It seems, that there is a bug, which make this one required to work, as $= does not work for template element (Polymer/polymer#4060).
The main problem is that, we need a new name - we cannot override native .content property of the HTMLTemplateElement

@warpech, @miyconst, @lbustelo, @deadlyfingers any ideas?

I'd like to keep it short, meaningful and similar/related to content and href as they match conceptually similar thing.

[tomalec]

(work in progress is available at issues/18-content-property branch)

[tomalec]

My proposition for the new name is href

• usually, that's what it is - hyperlink with reference to document to fetch template from,

  but..

• it could look weird for inline markup.

WIP: https://github.com/Juicy/juicy-html/compare/issues/18-href-attr?expand=1

[tomalec]

@warpech Maybe we should do it otherwise. Instead of facing dilemma whether to have attribute name that matches inline content and hyper link, and maintain hidden heuristic rules that guesses that you want to load external content. Just make it explicitly separated?

• for external content: href
• for internal content:
  a. content - and don't code it just forward attribute to use native template.content property, just control the (auto)stamping via stamp attribute - stamp attribute to take control on lifecycle of stamping #10)
  b. html which works as before, but no longer collide with property
• to avoid collisions and headache of mixing those two, setting one, will remove the other.

[warpech]

The above was agreed between me and @tomalec on Hangouts.

[tomalec]

@lbustelo Sorry, that it took that long.
Starting from https://github.com/Juicy/juicy-html/releases/tag/2.0.0 you can use attributes and properties: href for URLs and html for inline content. So you no longer have to remember about $=