Intent to Ship: Import Text (Text Modules)

[Nikolaos Papaspyrou]

Contact emails

ol...@google.com, niko...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-import-text
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11933
https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/pull/794

Specification

https://tc39.es/proposal-import-text

Summary

A TC39 proposal to add module `import … with { type: "text" }` statements to JavaScript. The import attribute loads text data as a string value.

Blink component

Blink>JavaScript>Language

Web Feature ID

text-modules

Motivation

No information provided

Initial public proposal

No information provided

TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Not applicable

Goals for experimentation

None

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No information provided

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2039881)

WebKit: In development (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310340)

Web developers: No signals

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?

No information provided

Debuggability

No information provided

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

Yes

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

Yes
https://wpt.fyi/results/html/semantics/scripting-1/the-script-element/text-module?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

JavaScriptImportText

Rollout plan

Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?

False

No custom browser logic or UI. Only mechanical updates to existing switch statements in //chrome were needed to handle the new network::mojom::RequestDestination::kText enum value.

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/494350643

Estimated milestones

Shipping on desktop	155
Shipping on Android	155
Shipping on WebView	155

Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way).

No information provided

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5191512456560640?gate=6058378127343616

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

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Nikolaos Papaspyrou <niko...@chromium.org>

[Daniel Bratell]

LGTM1

(Stage 3 TC39, shipped in Mozilla)

/Daniel

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[Mike Taylor]

LGTM2

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[Vladimir Levin]

LGTM3

On Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 10:43:19 AM UTC-4 Mike Taylor wrote:

LGTM2

On 9/9/26 10:33 a.m., Daniel Bratell wrote:

LGTM1

(Stage 3 TC39, shipped in Mozilla)

/Daniel

On 2026-09-03 17:27, Nikolaos Papaspyrou wrote:

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