Intent to Ship: Expose the 'autocorrect' global html attribute

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

jfern...@igalia.com

Specification

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interaction.html#autocorrection

Summary

The HTML autocorrect attribute allows web authors to control whether autocorrection should be applied to user input in editable elements including <input>, <textarea>, and contenteditable hosts. The feature makes the 'autocorrect' attribute to be exposed to web authors.

Blink component

Blink>Editing>IME

Web Feature ID

autocorrect

Motivation

The 'autocorrect' HTML attribute has been implemented long ago, but since it's not defined in any exported IDL, websites fail to detected it as supported.

Initial public proposal

No information provided

TAG review

No information provided

TAG review status

Not applicable

Goals for experimentation

None

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

The feature is supported in Firefox and Safari, so I don't think there is any interoperability risk on exposing this feature. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/autocorrect

Gecko: Shipped/Shipping (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1927977) https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/

WebKit: Shipped/Shipping (https://webkit.org/blog/16301/webkit-features-in-safari-18-2) https://webkit.org/blog/15860/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-203/

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
The platform support varies considerably, given that this feature depends heavily on the underlying OS capabilities for spell checking and IME functionalities.

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

Yes
The Web Platform Tests coverage is quite limited in terms of functionality due to the high dependency on the platform's capabilities. There are a few tests to check the IDL correctness and some basic spec conformance. https://wpt.fyi/results/html/editing/editing-0/autocorrection/autocorrection.html?label=experimental&label=master&aligned https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/master/html/editing/editing-0/autocorrection/autocorrect-off-touch-keyboard-manual.html

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

No information provided

Non-finch justification

No information provided

Rollout plan

Will ship enabled for all users

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40871769

Estimated milestones

Shipping on desktop	151
Shipping on Android	151
Shipping on WebView	151
Shipping on iOS	151

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/6264645053710336?gate=4718478864023552

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[Daniel Bratell]

LGTM1

/Daniel

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