Intent to Prototype: 'writingsuggestions' attribute

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Stephanie Zhang

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Jan 25, 2024, 4:43:34 PM1/25/24
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Specification
Summary
The new attribute 'writingsuggestions' has values on/off that would allow developers to turn on/off browser-provided writing suggestions. This attribute will have a default state per element, as established by the UA. The attribute's state for an element can also be inherited from ancestor elements, thereby allowing developers to control this functionality at a per-element or per-document/sub-document scale.

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Motivation
UAs are starting to provide writing suggestions to users as they type on various editable fields across the web. While this is generally useful for users, there are cases when developers may want to turn off UA-provided writing assistance, such as extensions or sites that wish to provide similar functionality on their own. To that end, developers need a solution that would turn on/off UA-provided writing assistance.

Initial public proposal
TAG review
TAG review status
Resolution: satisfied

Risks
None

Interoperability and Compatibility
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?
Flag name on chrome://flags
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Finch feature name
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Non-finch justification
None

Requires code in //chrome?
False

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