// this is a mail for suggesting adding internal template engine into html5

Hi Sir:

I'm a php developer who sometimes touch javascript. I think there might be requirements for adding internal template system into modern browser.

Normally js lib would like to do this (for example in backbone):

<script type="text/template" id="...">
...
</script>

Obviously we need a common tag for that purpose when comparing to script/css links:

• script with src attribute can link to those common javascript files
• link with href attribute can link to those common css styles

What about common html templates? We could define the same thing for this:

// index.html
<tpl local id="tpl-foo">...</tpl>

// tpls.html
<tpl global id="tpl-bar">...</tpl>

The differences between use <script> and <tpl> are as folloing:

• global templates will be cached just like cookie/localStorage
• they can be obtained by the template engine, document.getTemplateById('tpl-foo')
• they are hidden doms (so, there's no need extra step of parsing from string to dom -- like angularJs)
• also support json as arguments. document.getTemplateById('tpl-foo').with(...json data...)

So what about this?

Thanks.

Yarco