Yes, with my proposal, globalID would be translated to HTML. With id, it would go back to the classic behavior of adding a member variable to the class only and not being translated to a global HTML id.
This change would indeed break existing FlexJS applications that used the HTML id in some way (like in CSS). However, we're pre-1.0, so breaking changes are still to be expected while we smooth things over. I would rather fix id to put it back to the original behavior of affecting the current class only than add a workaround like localID/mxmlID for the fact that id was overloaded to mean something at the global-level too. - Josh On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:37 AM, piotrz <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > I was going to expand my thoughts on same concerns what Chris mention. If > we > introduce "localId" which will be responsible for identifying components in > MXML we need to also generate "id" - based on those "localId" - cause in > many cases "id" will be required in HTML once we set "localId". > > Some external library may require those "id". > > Summarize a bit we have so far following ideas: > 1) Introduce "localId" or "mxmlId" as entity which is not translated to > HTML > 2) Introduce "globalId" which will be translated to HTML, but "id" not > necessary (Josh Am I understand you right ?) - But that would break > existing > applications, cause we have right now "id" translation to HTML. > > Related to introduced new property: > 1) Have the compiler check that HTML ids are not used more than once. > (Harbs > - Globally ?, If id is used more than once in many views ?) > 2) Ability set HTML ids (Harbs I need a bit more elaboration on this, > cause > I do not fully understand) > 3) "id" should be generated based on "localId" or make generation based on > Chris's suggestions (Piotr, Chris) > > If I miss something or didn't understand enough please correct me. > > Thanks for a good discussion on that! > Piotr > > > > > ----- > Apache Flex PMC > piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-flex- > development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-MXML-ids-and- > classNames-tp54361p61745.html > Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
