Ready for Developer Testing: Declarative Document Patching

[Chromestatus]

Contact emails

nrose...@chromium.org, foo...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/declarative-partial-updates/blob/main/patching-explainer.md

Specification

https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11818

Summary

Stream HTML content out of order, and update an existing document with a stream of encoded "patches" that modify its existing content.

Blink component

Blink>HTML

Web Feature ID

No information provided

Goals for experimentation

None

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

No information provided

Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1369)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/628)

Web developers: Positive (https://github.com/wicG/declarative-partial-updates) See issues in the WICG repo, lots of involvement from framework/CMS developers.

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)?

No

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

Yes
https://wpt.fyi/results/html/dom/partial-updates/tentative?label=experimental&aligned

Flag name on about://flags

No information provided

Finch feature name

DocumentPatching

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/431374376

Estimated milestones

DevTrial on desktop	148
DevTrial on Android	148

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5111042975465472

Links to previous Intent discussions

Intent to Prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/6870fd9f.2b0a0220.2125de.0151.GAE%40google.com

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