Intent to Experiment: Focusgroup

[Benjamin Beaudry]

Contact emails

bebe...@microsoft.com

Explainer

https://open-ui.org/components/focusgroup.explainer

Summary

The Focusgroup feature will facilitate keyboard focus navigation using the keyboard arrow keys among a set of focusable elements.

Blink component

Blink>DOM

TAG review

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/732

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/631) Pending

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: Positive

Other signals:

WebView application risks

Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?

Goals for experimentation

Test out the current design of the "focugroup" attribute and get feedback from developers to eventually guide spec developement. We are working with the Microsoft FAST team (https://github.com/microsoft/fast) and we expect feedback from them and welcome feedback from the entire web community.

Reason this experiment is being extended

Ongoing technical constraints

Debuggability

Dev tools error logging is supported for various invalid combinations of focusgroup values in HTML.

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?

Yes

Supported on all platforms but requires a keyboard with directional arrows.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

Yes

Flag name

--enable-blink-features=Focusgroup

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1286127

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5637601087193088

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/BL0PR00MB0820DFE66371FEA5743EA92F9B529%40BL0PR00MB0820.namprd00.prod.outlook.com

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[Yoav Weiss]

What milestones are you planning to run the experiment on?

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[Benjamin Beaudry]

We are planning to run the OT in Microsoft Edge 104, 105 and 106.

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[Chris Harrelson]

LGTM to experiment.

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