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…in that regard in 2018 and proposed a passwordrules attribute with a mini description language: • https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 • https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/password_... •…

comment by ttepasse · 2021-11-18 · in I hate password rules

This is something that folks are working on via the `passwordrules` attribute https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 With that and a well-known endpoint for changing passwords (not quite the same thing as what you’re describing;…

comment by whymarrh · 2021-11-16 · in I hate password rules

…formats browsers should make it easy. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=791658 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/7141

comment by atom_arranger · 2021-10-28 · in The HTML video element needs to go back on the drawing board

…can end up with different text alignment and measurements between browsers. See this spec issue: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6731

comment by AshleysBrain · 2021-10-25 · in The strangely difficult problem of drawing a box around text

TBF even the spec authors are a bit confused about that attribute: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5466 It has complex and non-obvious effects. greggman on the three.js issue wrote a really nice summary on why it shouldn't be the…

comment by wffurr · 2021-10-07 · in RenderingNG: An architecture that makes and keeps Chrome fast for the long term

I think this is almost funny. If it weren't so sad. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7137/files

comment by Akronymus · 2021-10-03 · in Six Hacktoberfest spam PRs have been sent to the HTML Standard in just one day

I like this one: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7139/files

comment by asddubs · 2021-10-03 · in Six Hacktoberfest spam PRs have been sent to the HTML Standard in just one day

…Safari prior to merging code into the codebase or simply lobbing a spec proposal over the fence. https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6297

comment by zamadatix · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

I think they may have meant to link this instead: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857... there's also another reply to the parent with a link to the chromium issue tracker confirming this

comment by asddubs · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894 Apparently they are. How disappointing, I really like how useful they are for quickly getting something working and maintaining a consistent and expected experience for the user.

comment by NegativeLatency · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

…and eventually removed. Browser makers have declared they’d like to remove them altogether: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894 . But they’re too popular to remove under current policies unless they’re really causing harm, and I do…

comment by chrismorgan · 2021-08-26 · in Canistilluse.com

> has 76 comments, as of writing this. Seventy six. Out of millions of users. I just commented in https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8933... and https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2894#issuecomment-8933... - and…

comment by matkoniecz · 2021-08-05 · in Google hits undo on limiting JavaScript capabilities in cross-origin iframes

The Register cites this: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857... Also this: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1422930436850860033

comment by vasachi · 2021-08-05 · in Google hits undo on limiting JavaScript capabilities in cross-origin iframes

…this is just a first step toward eventually completely removing them, which will take many years. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897#issuecomment-8857...

comment by david_allison · 2021-08-04 · in Google is considering removing alert()

There's an ongoing conversation that has lasted about four years on https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2791 regarding whether or not browsers should implement `<include>`, (think client-side SSI, php's `include`, ngInclude, or similar…

comment by andrewmcwatters · 2021-08-04 · in Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes

…members of the WHATWG to push for the removal of any blocking methods in JavaScript. To quote from https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6897 : > _In general all of the simple dialogs (alert(), prompt(), confirm(), and beforeunload) are…

comment by Andrex · 2021-08-03 · in Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes

…Unfortunately I can’t see history of the spec before 2006 though https://github.com/whatwg/html

comment by yonran · 2021-08-02 · in How to boost your popularity on OkCupid using CSRF and a JSON type confusion

…[8]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#br... [9]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5803 [10]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227924 [11]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-p

comment by sirn · 2021-07-28 · in A critique of Safari's influence on the web

…still currently stuck with ASCII, which is in keeping with its still-quite-limited support, though https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 progresses in fits and starts).

comment by chrismorgan · 2021-07-05 · in The Good and the Limitations of Github Copilot

…iframes had happened, or any other way of auto-resizing an iframe: relevant spec issues are https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 and https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771 .) ② A submit button or link to a URL that returns…

comment by chrismorgan · 2021-06-08 · in Fastly Outage

…there. Testing it in Firefox to confirm, ascii@υνικοδε validates, but υνικοδε@ascii doesn’t. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4562 seems to be where progress is made from time to time. As usual, it’s not as simple as we might hope.

comment by chrismorgan · 2021-05-25 · in Complexities of e-mail validation logic

…frequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-t... [2]: https://web.dev/progressive-web-apps/ [3]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/search?q=progressive+web+app&...

comment by waon · 2021-05-06 · in Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”

…toggle was available as an activation behaviour, and this is an open issue for the HTML standard. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567

comment by inopinatus · 2021-04-24 · in Using <details> for menus and dialogs (2019)

…injectable scriptlets. (1) of course there are issues, you cant inject into <iframe src="data: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1753 in Chrome :( so you would have to manipulate CSP to disable those.

comment by rasz · 2021-04-13 · in Chrome zero-day released on GitHub – fixed on V8 but still works on latest

There's a metabug on HTML at https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5880 about defining how various platform-exposed features behave in the face of a bfcache (backwards/forwards cache).

comment by gsnedders · 2021-02-17 · in WebKit Quirks

Re the generator, there's the passwordrules proposal: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3518 Some systems are already using it -- e.g. I know that Apple's generate-password helper reads it, and I believe that 1Password also does.

comment by kemayo · 2021-02-16 · in Changes to LastPass Free

That one seems gone, so I clicked on another, https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5984/commits/f056fd22b59... : - please let that site know of the problem instead. Thanks!</p> + please let that site know of the problem instead.We will try…

comment by mkl · 2020-10-01 · in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

…in last two hours https://github.com/phpmyadmin/website/pulls?q=is%3Apr 9 spam PRs in the last day https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+l... Take a look at this user who has made 21 commits this year. 20 of the…

comment by danieka · 2020-09-30 · in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

…compare e.g. clear spam, which adds a copy of someones website into the HTML specification repo: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5972/files There is no scenario in which that is even a potential improvement.

comment by detaro · 2020-09-30 · in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

I was curious what the average PR looked like, so I went to their project and opened one at random: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/5968/commits/5d8b75ef0a3... Yeah, it's pretty bad.

comment by ve55 · 2020-09-30 · in DigitalOcean's Hacktoberfest Is Hurting Open Source

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Autofocus doesn't work in web components

story by stevebmark · 2020-07-17 · 0 comments

I was surprised by this, but at least as early as September 2008: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c67bb312ac44737c6c175b...

comment by bchociej · 2020-05-21 · in Students are failing AP tests because the College Board can’t handle HEIC images

…asked for them, as shown there (and note that Google removed <style scoped> from Chromium): 1. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552#issuecomment-17810... 2. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!searchin/bl... Also, even…

comment by smnthermes · 2020-03-17 · in Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents

…scoped>` being removed from browsers after Google requested it. That would be really handy to use. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552

comment by mavsman · 2020-03-17 · in Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents

…If you are discussing this without reading it, this is going to be an unproductive discussion. 0: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3752/files#diff-36cd38f4...

comment by scarejunba · 2020-02-13 · in The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard

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The specification for native image lazy-loading is merged into HTML standard

story by saranshk · 2020-02-13 · 176 comments

This position seems at odds with a recently opened WHATWG issue. https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4986

comment by packetized · 2019-10-13 · in Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

…are looking for? I'm a small fish but I certainly would love to see this HTML spec be revived. [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/552

comment by munk-a · 2019-07-19 · in Building the New Twitter.com

…[2] https://webkit.org/blog/8124/introducing-storage-access-api/ [3] https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3338 [4] https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5668660729348096

comment by TheAceOfHearts · 2019-05-30 · in Safari Technology Preview Release 83 is now available

…go figure. Re. specific examples mentioned: CSP is still evolving today and HTML has to keep up -- https://github.com/whatwg/html/search?o=desc&q=CSP&s=author-... With WeakRef, things still need to stay up-to-date:…

comment by lstamour · 2019-05-28 · in W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

…to focus specifically on the HTML spec and notable changes for newer devices and accessibility: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commits Let’s see, right off the top we’ve inputmode attr which helps support different keyboards on plain input…

comment by lstamour · 2019-05-28 · in W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

…ve.xmlprague.cz/2017/files/xmlprague-2017-procee... [2]: https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/1116 [3]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/6e305c457e42276bf275b8... [4]: Edit: this affects differences introduced in HTML 5.2 vs HTML 5.1,…

comment by tannhaeuser · 2019-05-28 · in W3C and the WHATWG sign agreement to collaborate on single version of HTML, DOM

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Web Proposal: Programmatic preloading of resources

story by pastelsky · 2019-04-25 · 0 comments

…or even reviewed by W3C-TAG, so it isn't a standard yet. You can find the full discussion here: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/3752

comment by franga2000 · 2019-04-07 · in Native image lazy-loading for the web

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The Dialog Element Will Probably Be Removed from the HTML Spec

story by fagnerbrack · 2019-01-28 · 0 comments

…year these people really soured it to me. E.g. look at 22-52 days old denied PRs on the HTML spec: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed That's an entirely different thing to "serious" small fixes that actually clean…

comment by detaro · 2018-11-21 · in “The 's' is sad”: 4-year-old submits Linux kernel doc patch (2014)

…API that they mention in the blog post is proposed to WHATWG, but not accepted as a standard yet: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3338

comment by JonathonW · 2018-06-04 · in Intelligent Tracking Prevention 2.0

Read this https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2806

comment by stereobooster · 2018-06-01 · in Show HN: An Almost Ideal React Image Component

…with the behavior of the other browsers without there being a patch associated with this bug? [1] https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/00769464e80149368672b8...

comment by jancsika · 2018-04-30 · in Prevent data: URLs from being used for XSS

…://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7p5yha/proposa... https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/820 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3337

comment by xialvjun · 2018-03-26 · in Ask HN: What percentage of your users are using social login?