Intent to Prototype: NavigateEvent sourceElement

[Nate Chapin]

Contact emails

jap...@chromium.org, dom...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/commit/85edaf1d4d42355b020807cd56f6a22784978c3d

Specification

None

Summary

When a navigation is initiated by an Element (i.e., a link click or a form submission), the sourceElement property on the NavigateEvent will be the initiating element.

Blink component

Blink>History

Motivation

This was requested by web developers. It provides an easy way to disambiguate which of several possible elements initiated a navigation.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/issues/225

TAG review

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

None

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: Strongly positive (https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/issues/225)

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?

None

Debuggability

None

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

Yes

Flag name on chrome://flags

None

Finch feature name

None

Non-finch justification

None

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1483000

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5134353390895104

This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status.

[Vladimir Levin]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 3:41 PM Nate Chapin <jap...@chromium.org> wrote:

Contact emails

jap...@chromium.org, dom...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/commit/85edaf1d4d42355b020807cd56f6a22784978c3d

Specification

None

Summary

When a navigation is initiated by an Element (i.e., a link click or a form submission), the sourceElement property on the NavigateEvent will be the initiating element.

Blink component

Blink>History

Motivation

This was requested by web developers. It provides an easy way to disambiguate which of several possible elements initiated a navigation.

Initial public proposal

https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/issues/225

TAG review

FWIW, TAG review is here: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/867

 

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