> Here's what killed web components: lack of native databinding on the web. We have one, and it's called DOM, and XSLT to expand XML data into full fledged doc

> Here's what killed web components: lack of native databinding on the web. We have one, and it's called DOM, and XSLT to expand XML data into full fledged documents. It's just browsermakers collectively conspired to sabotage declarative features to push their numerous JS based "bicycle reinventions." We also had XForms, but this is an even longer story.