When are you hoping to ship this? Joe Medley | Technical Writer, Chrome DevRel | [email protected] | 816-678-7195 *If an API's not documented it doesn't exist.*
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:58 AM 'François Beaufort 🇫🇷' via blink-dev < [email protected]> wrote: > Contact emails > > [email protected] > > Explainer > > https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7319 > > Specification > > https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#dom-input-showpicker > > Summary > > The HTMLInputElement showPicker() method allows web developers to > programmatically show a browser picker for input elements (temporal, color, > file, and those with suggestions like datalist or autofill). > > Blink component > > Blink>Forms > <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3EForms> > > Motivation > > Developers have been asking for years for a way to programmatically open a > browser date picker. See > https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+date+picker+site:stackoverflow.com > <https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+date+picker+site%3Astackoverflow.com> > > Because of that, they had to rely on custom widget libraries and CSS hacks > for specific browsers. > > This is currently possible in some browsers, for some controls, via the > click() method. However this is not interoperable ( > https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909#issuecomment-897097048) and > considered a bad idea ( > https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3232#issuecomment-345279014). > Providing showPicker() gives developers a supported alternative to click(), > and will allow us to align Chromium's click() behavior with the > specification and other browsers in a future Intent to Ship. > > Initial public proposal > > https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909 > > TAG review > > https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/688 > > TAG review status > > Pending > > Risks > Interoperability and Compatibility > > For interoperability: This feature was developed in collaboration with > Gecko engineers, who are positive. It also will help with improving click() > interoperability in the future, which is currently messy ( > https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909#issuecomment-897097048). > > For compatibility: this feature is specified and designed to give browsers > flexibility in whether they display a picker, or how they display it. > Developers cannot observe either of these things (except for file pickers, > which fire certain events), so we will not be constrained by any > JavaScript-observable behavior if we need to make future changes to form > control UIs. > > Gecko: Positive - > https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/7319#issuecomment-988837778 > > WebKit: No signal - > https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2021-December/032071.html > > Web developers: Positive - > https://twitter.com/quicksave2k/status/1420320560345661440 (6 Retweets > and 29 Likes) - https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/6909 (9 👍 and 5 > ❤️) show that developers like this particular solution. Plus the evidence > of developer interest in the use case, per the Motivation section above. > > > Debuggability > > No specific DevTools changes are required. This feature is treated like > any other JS method. > Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, > Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? > > Yes > > Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests > <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md> > ? > > No. We are able to test the error case behaviors but the actual showing of > the picker is not testable using WPT. > > > https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/html/semantics/forms/the-input-element > > > Flag name > > chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features > > Requires code in //chrome? > > False > > Tracking bug > > https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=939561 > > Estimated milestones > > M99 > > Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status > > https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/5692248021794816 > > Links to previous Intent discussions > > Intent to prototype: > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/fEebe5uXQ1I > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "blink-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAPpwU5Lh3nwAzZs4P1eHdg80dViZomPc%2BY0HpQ9HYpxgUSgnQA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAPpwU5Lh3nwAzZs4P1eHdg80dViZomPc%2BY0HpQ9HYpxgUSgnQA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAJUhtG-FxmzA35G3PRq%2BfKX2%2BF%2BNqEoKJs9PjUApx%2BLJWVjviA%40mail.gmail.com.
