Improve DX of element reference attributes by allowing relative references instead of just ids

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Improve DX of element reference attributes by allowing relative references instead of just ids #1014

Open LeaVerou opened 2 months ago

LeaVerou commented 2 months ago

I posted this proposal/exploration in https://github.com/whatwg/html/ 3 weeks ago but it occurred to me it would actually be an excellent fit here too.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10143

There are several new elements also adopting this referencing scheme such as popovers, invokers, the new anchor attribute and so on, so I think it's time to address this longstanding author pain point.