On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 7:36 PM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the feedback Noam - would you mind filing a bug at
> crbug.com/new that contains some steps to reproduce the breakage, and
> possibly some affected codepaths and report back here? Agree that breaking
> Excel is not a great outcome.
>
That's an understatement..

> On 2/26/24 10:01 AM, Noam Helfman wrote:
>
> Great to see work is being done to get this standardized!
>
> However, I think it should not be shipped yet.
>
> We have done some basic testing of this feature with Excel Online and it
> breaks lots of critical user scenarios related to our zoom feature. This
> will impact many millions of users and regress a major feature.
>
> We will need to spend time to investigate if there is a simple workaround
> that we can use to address this regression.
>
> Few questions:
> 1. What is the expected timeline to ship this?
>
> Good question. +Yotam Hacohen <[email protected]> may be able to say
more. For now, I see that the feature is still not enabled by default
<https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:third_party/blink/renderer/platform/runtime_enabled_features.json5;l=3597?q=StandardizedBrowserZoom%20-f:out&ss=chromium>
.

> 2. Is there an option to programatically determine if the feature is
> enabled? (e.g. would *CSS.supports("zoom")* return *true*? )
> 3. Will there be an option to enable/disable it (e.g. release with OT)?
>
> It might be a good idea to have an OT that turns this feature off, even if
it's only for Excel. (although if we missed this breakage, I wonder what
other breakage we may have missed)

>
> Please do not ship this until we can confirm we have a workaround or the
> API is adapted in a way that does not regress existing behavior.
>
> Thanks,
> Noam
> On Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 12:18:06 PM UTC+2 Daniel Bratell wrote:
>
>> Same for me. A proprietary long term CSS property is now fully
>> standardized and will be interoperable. This is a win for the web, and
>> thank you for all who worked to make it happen!
>>
>> /Daniel
>> On 2024-02-14 18:13, Yoav Weiss (@Shopify) wrote:
>>
>> Just wanted to say that it's exciting to see this standardized after all
>> these years. Given the manual inspection, it seems like shipping this to
>> 100% with a killswitch is (hopefully) safe enough!
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 6:11 PM Yoav Weiss (@Shopify) <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> LGTM3
>>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 6:00 PM Philip Jägenstedt <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> LGTM2
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 11:53 PM Daniel Bratell <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > LGTM1
>>>> >
>>>> > /Daniel
>>>> >
>>>> > On 2024-02-09 20:24, 'Yotam Hacohen' via blink-dev wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 6:46:00 PM UTC-8 Domenic Denicola
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 10:55 AM Yotam Hacohen <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hey Dominic and thanks for the input!
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 7:34:53 PM UTC-8 Domenic Denicola
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > It's always exciting to move such an old feature from nonstandard to
>>>> standardized!
>>>> >
>>>> > On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 4:18 AM 'Yotam Hacohen' via blink-dev <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Contact [email protected]
>>>> >
>>>> > ExplainerNone
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > FWIW, I think the contents of
>>>> https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/9699 and
>>>> https://drafts.csswg.org/css-viewport/#zoom-property are probably a
>>>> good enough explainer. It might be a good idea to update ChromeStatus to
>>>> link to them.
>>>> >
>>>> > Added those. Thanks!
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Specificationhttps://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/9699
>>>> >
>>>> > Design docshttps://
>>>> docs.google.com/document/d/1AcnDShjT-kEuRaMchZPm5uaIgNZ4OiYtM4JI9qiV8Po/edit
>>>> >
>>>> > Summary
>>>> >
>>>> > Aligns the existing implementation of the previously non-standard CSS
>>>> zoom property to align with the new standard. This changes various JS APIs
>>>> to align with the spec (see design doc), change zoom to apply to iframes,
>>>> and change it to apply to all inherit all length properties (currently it
>>>> only changes inherited font-size)
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Blink componentBlink>Paint
>>>> >
>>>> > TAG reviewNone
>>>> >
>>>> > TAG review statusPending
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Probably this fits under the first exception here.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Risks
>>>> >
>>>> > Interoperability and Compatibility
>>>> >
>>>> > There is web compatibility risk for these changes. However, previous
>>>> research indicates broken content due to unexpected changes of the JS APIs
>>>> is very unlikely, since: * The changes to the JS API simply change the
>>>> coordinate space of the responses, not the syntax or what APIs are
>>>> available. * Most pages found during the research didn't appear to use CSS
>>>> zoom at all and the ones that did only relied on the visual effect, not JS
>>>> APIs. It's possible some pages will be broken by the changes to inherited
>>>> properties other than font-size, or applying zoom to sub-frames, but based
>>>> on previous research, those are very likely to be minor visual changes that
>>>> don't break fundamental user interaction with the site. None of the sites
>>>> reviewed contained iframes underneath a zoomed ancestor. We will use direct
>>>> outreach to avoid any broken features in Office 365 or the Gmail native
>>>> mobile app
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Can you give more quantitative details on this previous research?
>>>> E.g. when you say "most pages", is that 3/5 pages? 99/100?
>>>> >
>>>> >   Sampling pages from the doc, I couldn't find even one example of a
>>>> page that uses zoom in a way that will change it's behavior (i.e. - calling
>>>> GetBoundingClientRect or GetBoundingRects on an element with CSS zoom). I
>>>> also compared those sites visually side by side on a stable version of
>>>> chrome and a local version with the planned changes in effect, and couldn't
>>>> see any change.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > This sounds like a good sign, but I'd still appreciate some numbers.
>>>> So it's zero out of how many?
>>>> >
>>>> > I checked the first 15 websites in the list on this doc:
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cmbXpjAcXAht2ufi7bNKy-rbVNveqaf0UzeYg_DIMNA/edit#heading=h.6sz4u73bikbd
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Regarding the direct outreach targets you mentioned, are they already
>>>> fixed, or do they need more time to update?
>>>> >
>>>> > We have reached out to the relevant people.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > So, you have contacted them, but they still need more time to update?
>>>> Do you have an estimate for when they will be updated?
>>>> >
>>>> > We already got a response from the gmail team, and everything is ok
>>>> there, we even have a jsfiddle example that shows that the visual aspect
>>>> doesn't change for them. Still waiting for a response from the Office 365,
>>>> if we don't get a response in the next week we will reach out again for a
>>>> better defined timeline.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > What is your rollout plan for this change---straight to 100% with a
>>>> killswitch, or a gradual rollout, or...?
>>>> >
>>>> > Our plan is to go straight to 100% with a killswitch.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Gecko: No signal Filed a standard position request:
>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/977
>>>> >
>>>> > WebKit: No signal Filed a standard position request:
>>>> https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/311
>>>> >
>>>> > Web developers: Positive (
>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cmbXpjAcXAht2ufi7bNKy-rbVNveqaf0UzeYg_DIMNA/edit#heading=h.6sz4u73bikbd)
>>>> Research collected as part of the previous attempt to remove CSS zoom
>>>> demonstrated several use cases.
>>>> >
>>>> > Other signals:
>>>> >
>>>> > WebView application risks
>>>> >
>>>> > See Interoperability and Compatibility above
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Debuggability
>>>> >
>>>> > None
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows,
>>>> Mac, Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?No
>>>> >
>>>> > Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?Yes
>>>> >
>>>> > All JS APIs affected by zoom are tested with the following wpt tests:
>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom-view/offsetTop-offsetLeft-with-zoom.html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=cssom-view%2FoffsetTop-offsetLeft-with-zoom.html
>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom-view/client-props-zoom.html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned
>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom-view/getBoundingClientRect-zoom.html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned
>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom-view/getClientRects-zoom.html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned
>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom-view/scroll-zoom.html?label=master&label=experimental&aligned
>>>> https://wpt.fyi/results/intersection-observer/zoom-scaled-target.html?label=experimental&label=master&aligned
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Are the non-JS aspects of the API also tested?
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes, the tests also test the cpp code that is affected.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > My question was about the visual aspects. Are there any, for example,
>>>> reftests, which show that zoom has a visual effect?
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes, there are reftests for zoom in the wpt folder. The behavior of
>>>> many aspects of the zoom are not changed (Especially the visual effect of
>>>> CSS zoom on most elements, excluding iframes) and those tests stay the
>>>> same. We will also add reftests for iframes with CSS zoom withe the patch
>>>> adding those changes to iframes.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Flag name on chrome://flagsStandardizedBrowserZoom
>>>> >
>>>> > Finch feature nameStandardizedBrowserZoom
>>>> >
>>>> > Requires code in //chrome?False
>>>> >
>>>> > Sample linkshttps://jsbin.com/wasafateko/edit?html,css,js,output
>>>> >
>>>> > Estimated milestones
>>>> >
>>>> > No milestones specified
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Statushttps://
>>>> chromestatus.com/feature/5198254868529152
>>>> >
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