HTML Standard (Jan 2020): review tracker

[siusin]

Requested

• [x] APA WG
• [ ] HTML WG
• [x] I18n WG
• [x] Privacy IG(no concern 2020-04-21)
• [x] TAG
• [x] W3C Chairs
• [ ] WebApps WG
• [ ] Web Security IG

PRs between Jul 2019 and Jan 2020

Accessibility?

• Further tabIndex getter tweaks
• Make the default tabIndex for <frame> 0
• Make autofocus="" a global attribute
• Update autofocus processing algorithm
• Update sequential focus navigation to include shadow trees
• Define different types of focusability
• Handle delegates focus in the focusing steps
• Tweak shadow host focus delegation
• Prevent double-focusing with autofocus="" inside <dialog>
• Make autofocus="" work with delegatesFocus and <area>
• Add Accessibility considerations to element definitions
• Add Accessibility considerations for custom elements

I18N?

• Do not inherit text-transform (et al.) on form controls

Security?

• Fix conformance requirements on <script>'s integrity="" attribute
• Revert addition of JSON modules
• Define (schemelessly) same site for origins
• Restrict (un)registerProtocolHandler to secure contexts
• Snapshot sandbox at the start of navigation
• Give browsing context an explicit container
• Only run "perform a security check" for Window and Location objects
• Disallow serializing and transferring non-origin-clean ImageBitmap

Privacy?

• Explicitly prevent sandboxed navigation via History

Architecture?

• Make <img>.complete more reliable
• Change default value of window.open()'s url argument
• Remove <img> progress events
• Define DocumentOrShadowRoot's activeElement
• Imperatively allocate window agents and agent clusters
• Update all constructors, including HTMLConstructor
• Specify which event loop to use for posting messages
• Use width and height as intrinsic aspect ratio for img elements
• Make window.window/frames/self deal with no browsing context)
• Ignore document.open/write after the active parser has been aborted
• Change the timing of "flush autofocus candidates”
• Introduce SubmitEvent for the form submit event
• Revamp the user activation model
• Add "queue an element task” algorithm
• Define getSVGDocument() in terms of content document
• Cleanups to "execute a script block” Signpost the debate on some script mismatches
• Move the DOMParser class to HTML

[hober]

The TAG's review is complete: w3ctag/design-reviews#499

[matatk]

The Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) group's review is complete, with no concerns to be raised. [APA meeting minutes]

There have been several positive changes that relate to, and may raise awareness of, accessibility recently, including the inclusion of accessibility considerations and clarifications on focusability and label activation behaviour.

I attached a summary of review results both for the PRs highlighted above, and for the other commits during the review timeframe, to my results email to the APA list in case you would like any background details.

[aphillips]

The I18N WG's review is complete and we are satisfied that the new snapshot does not introduce any new issues.

Resolution: https://www.w3.org/2020/05/21-i18n-minutes.html Tracked at: https://github.com/w3c/i18n-request/issues/113

We continue to work with the WHATWG on open issues in the HTML and related specifications. [I18N-ACTION-913]