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Clarify/refine Relative Paths #11

@JanMiksovsky

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@JanMiksovsky

Breaking out this feedback from @arkihillel in #10:

Relative Paths — Are all paths relative to required resources (images, etc.) relative to the component source?

A web component should appear self sufficient as far as the user is concerned. If resources are required, they should be packaged with the component. The distribution and packaging standards should be a matter of their own

As with the other guidelines in the Loading section, this guideline is admittedly challenging to define. It's a critical issue — I've seen numerous web components that made assumptions about where they were located in the source tree, and were effectively unusable outside a project that wasn't organized exactly like the component's original project. And yet none of the Loading criteria can be defined with reference to HTML elements — the native ones are built-in, so they don't have any loading issues.

This particular issue has actually gotten worse since it was first written. Web components originally could depend upon HTML Imports. Since those have died, we're left with a world in which there's no standard means for a bit of source code to load a required resource from a relative location.

I'm debating whether to remove this guideline for the time being, or reword it.

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