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[FEATURE] Use `script` tag instead of custom `py-script`

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HTML <script> tag already supports to be used to host other languages than Javascript, with the type or language attributes, so there’s no need to use a custom <py-script> tag. Replace <py-script> tag with standard <script> one, or at least add support to use both of them.

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Created a year ago
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pzwangcommented, May 13, 2022

No disrespect but I think this position is insulting to the intelligence of the average person. Editing a html tag is well within the grasp of an average person.

I don’t question that the average person can edit HTML tags - that’s why PyScript leverages HTML. 😃

However, coming from a background of teaching Python and computers to many, many non-programmer types, it is my experience that every single additional character, symbol, etc. is a rock in their shoe. Especially if this is something that has to get typed repeatedly in various sections of the HTML.

If the <script> tag were only to appear once, in the <head>, then that’d be one thing. But it has to appear every single time that a user wants to insert some Python. This could be in the event handler of a button. This could be within some snippet of d3. Every. Single. Place. has to now expand to a much more verbose, more error-prone pile of text. And if the user mistypes it? <script type="python"> or <script type="text/python"> instead of <script type="text/x-python">? Then our JS preprocessor will silently ignore it, and the user won’t understand why their thing didn’t work.

And none of this removes the fact that there will be <py-repl>, <py-ui>, and may other kinds of tags within the PyScript framework.

I really don’t understand what the hang-up is. WebComponents are a standard part of HTML. Angular and many other frameworks define their own tag. Why can’t PyScript?

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pzwangcommented, May 16, 2022

This is a design issue. As maintainers, we have given our rationale, rooted in the overall philosophy of the project, which is to make things easy to use for non-experts and novices.

I am locking the issue to avoid further sniping and bikeshedding.