"Auto" feature

[johnholdun]

Automatically interact with something after a specified duration, or when it comes into view. Useful for automatic data refreshes and infinite scroll.

• What should this be called? "Autoclick" works for links and buttons but we should allow form submission as well. Maybe just "Auto?"
• Should we consider time-based and visibility-based interactions to be two options of the same feature, or two different features?

[snellingio]

Can see this being super useful for a "toast" or flash feature as well to remove it from the dom.

[weavermedia]

@snellingio Yeah, really like that idea. There is a Remove action already, would that be confusing?

Or maybe Remove could be extended to accept a delay value. If no delay value is provided it waits for a click (current behavior) but if delay is provided it removes on either a click or after the delay time 🤔

[johnholdun]

Or maybe Remove could be extended to accept a delay value.

I think another way to handle this is to add this hypothetical "auto" directive to a button that also has a "remove" directive. This button could be displayed to the user as a dismiss option for the alert in case they want to dismiss it more quickly; if they don't, after the specified delay, the button would receive a click event, which then triggers the remove and removes the alert from the DOM.