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218 mentions on Hacker News by 149 people: 25 stories, 193 comments · first 2015-08-27 · latest 2026-10-17

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  1. The only way to get out of the current front end hell IMO is if we get client side import: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791
    comment by candiddevmike · 2024-09-29 · in Web components are okay
  2. There's this HTML spec issue for an include feature that I think could always use more support: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 One of the things said in there is that they look for usage of userland solutions. I mentioned in…
    comment by spankalee · 2024-07-29 · in SVG Triangle of Compromise
  3. …to CommamdFor/InvikerAction work that's been chunking along. https://github.com/github/catalyst https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9625#issuecomment-2115... )
  4. …that quirky UI library's dialog. [1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/what-is-the-top-layer [2] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8339 [3] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/entry-exit-animations [4]…
    comment by dialogawesome · 2024-05-17 · in Popover API
  5. …there was interest of all major browser manufactors to implement ruby standard properly. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6478
  6. ▲ 1
    Add Writingsuggestions="" Attribute
    story by TobTobXX · 2024-03-13 · 0 comments
  7. HTML switch was already requested in 2018: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4180
    comment by wubin · 2024-03-05 · in An HTML Switch Control
  8. …DOM too now! There's a long-standing WHATWG feature request open for client-side includes here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 And several userland custom element implementation, like https://www.npmjs.com/package//html-include-…
  9. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9546
    comment by halostatue · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control
  10. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9546
    comment by halostatue · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control
  11. Also see the spec PR from WebKit: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9546
    comment by domenicd · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control
  12. …these seem to indicate that it's not around the corner either. Happy (/hope) to be corrected. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4180 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/990
    comment by 000ooo000 · 2024-02-29 · in An HTML Switch Control
  13. The `allow` attribute on iframes is a relatively recent API addition from 2017 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3287
    comment by felixfbecker · 2024-02-28 · in YouTube video embedding harm reduction
  14. …lets you load external content into the page declaratively. There's a spec issue open for this: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 And my custom element implementation of the idea: https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-include-element…
    comment by spankalee · 2024-02-19 · in Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML
  15. …Well, for example, here's the form you have to fill out to start standardizing a front-end feature. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/new?assignees=&labels=... It asks three main questions: * What problem are you trying to solve? *…
    comment by dfabulich · 2024-01-11 · in Is htmx Just Another JavaScript Framework?
  16. …mechanism for making a multi-format multi-media web where sites could have defined yaml viewers! https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/630
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2023-12-28 · in YAML's homepage is displayed in YAML
  17. …you're discussing for free. For <dialog>, the discussion is in progress and reaching a conclusion: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9373
    comment by domenicd · 2023-12-07 · in New in Chrome 120 back button detection
  18. Do you mean like Declarative Shadom Dom? https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5465
    comment by uallo · 2023-11-18 · in HTML Web Components: An Example
  19. …here's some bugs raised by Andreas Kling in the HTML spec that were found while building Ladybird: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues?q=is%3Aissue+author%3A...
  20. …to make sure I wasn't just out of the loop on this, as far as I can tell they are not the same: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5025
    comment by Wowfunhappy · 2023-10-31 · in macOS Sonoma Boot Failures
  21. ▲ 1
    The 'contenteditable' attribute disables the 'draggable' attribute
    story by shakna · 2023-10-31 · 0 comments
  22. ▲ 18
    Declarative Shadow DOM Merged into HTML Standard
    story by aragonite · 2023-10-30 · 3 comments
  23. ▲ 1
    Suggestion: Be able to load module-scripts in the file:// protocol
    story by jstanley · 2023-10-06 · 0 comments
  24. …that eventually we might get some kind of auto-resizing iframe (one starting point on the topic: < https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 >), so that you could put a response iframe below the form and make it the target. This exposes…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2023-09-10 · in Making a newsletter backend
  25. …of triggering them without JavaScript. Using pure HTML you can only dismiss them, not trigger them. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567 > dialog elements are a great addition and I'm glad they're getting implemented, but a key part…
    comment by SPBS · 2023-08-02 · in I'm betting on HTML
  26. ▲ 1
    Add class and for aliases for className and htmlFor
    story by robin_reala · 2023-06-05 · 0 comments
  27. …`dialog` with no changes and all the issues intact and unsolved landed in all major browsers. [0] https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4184#issuecomment-440405... [1] https://dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d
    comment by troupo · 2023-05-24 · in Popover API
  28. …advice about adding a `rel` attr is outdated, modern browsers will do this by default with `_blank` https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4078
    comment by cantSpellSober · 2023-02-20 · in Goodbye, CSS-Tricks
  29. Here's a long conversation on it from 2016: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1929 It does seem to have something to do with interfering with automatic focus on the dialog when it pops up as a modal.
    comment by Izkata · 2023-02-12 · in The <Dialog> Element
  30. …Asked about an Accept Header on the windows.open function. They just gave them the run around. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7810
  31. yep this is the way forward, ideally with something like the proposed passwordrules attribute https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518
    comment by gpmcadam · 2022-12-23 · in Password Requirements: Myths and Madness
  32. …from server-side runtimes like Node and Deno, and so on. Some interesting pages to peruse might be https://github.com/whatwg/html/commits/main , https://github.com/whatwg/html/graphs/contributors?type=c , and https://blog.whatwg.org/ .…
  33. ▲ 3
    Client side include feature for HTML
    story by andrewmcwatters · 2022-12-16 · 0 comments
  34. …straightforward to do basically, though you could do vastly better with an auto-resizing iframe ( https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 ) which would basically allow you to load new content into the document with a click (though it’ll…
  35. ▲ 1
    Require img to be able to load the same video formats as video supports
    story by unlog · 2022-09-23 · 0 comments
  36. …of making this behaviour part of the standard, since it's implemented by all of the major browsers. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2390
  37. …(here are the proposals for JS https://github.com/tc39/proposals ), whatWG also uses GH https://github.com/whatwg/html
  38. ▲ 2
    Whatwg gives up on fighting for A11y
    story by trumbitta2 · 2022-07-01 · 1 comment
  39. …article mentions, even being removed from the spec at one point [1] and then being added back in. https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/5ddfc78b1f82e86cc202d7...
  40. …local part, which isn’t supported everywhere but is, I believe, fairly widely supported now. See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 plus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address_internationaliza... for a little more background…
  41. …I was faced with similar issues designing TOTP/PIN controls. Didn't gain much traction though. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5209
  42. …occurances that overuse observedAttributes. All in all though, this library looks really great. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7039
    comment by jjcm · 2022-04-04 · in Shoelace: A Web Component Kit
  43. …that it's possible dialog should be fully removed as there's no interest in implementing it: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4184#issuecomment-440405... Fast forward to 2021, and Chrome breaks the web by removing built-in…
    comment by dmitriid · 2022-03-15 · in New WebKit features in Safari 15.4
  44. …reason is CORS. Web Devs (such as me) have asked for e.g. DELETE as an acceptable formmethod (e.g. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3577 ) however WHATWG always pushes back citing security concerns such as CORS. I suspect this is not…
    comment by runarberg · 2022-03-12 · in How to Design Better APIs
  45. …cancelled, and you can follow up with much more debate from all parties on roundRect and filters: http://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6763 https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6765 This is certainly not decided by fiat. Working to find…
    comment by mysteryDate · 2022-03-04 · in It's always been you, Canvas2D
  46. …such functionality to my canvas library[2]. The results work, but are slower than ideal. [1] - https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5620 [2] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/dom-015.html
    comment by rikroots · 2022-03-04 · in It's always been you, Canvas2D
  47. …seems likely to, and I don’t know of anything other than conformance checkers that implements it. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/83 shows a bit of the discussion that’s gone on; whether to remove it, simplify it drastically to the…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2022-02-24 · in Textile Markup Language
  48. …It’s definitely not in the spec and there’s an open discussion about trying to get it added: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2177
  49. I tried to correct something minor in the HTML spec a couple of years ago < https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5156 >, but I couldn’t contribute it individually because I happened at the time to be employed by a company that works on the…
  50. …about the same category of people who refuse to implement client side include for the web.[1] [1]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 Edit: People already know what the requirements are at a minimum because video games exist, and…
    comment by andrewmcwatters · 2021-12-11 · in The HTTP of VR