Re: Including the Presentation API in HTML5.2

>
> leave it there and include a warning in the HTML5.2 spec that indicates
> the current state of interoperability.


is my recommendation

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SteveF
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On 11 October 2017 at 12:44, Léonie Watson <tink@tink.uk> wrote:

> Hello HTML,
>
> We marked the Presentation API "at risk" in HTML5.2 because it is only
> implemented in Chrome at the moment [1].
>
> We've since heard from Anssi Kostiainen (chair of the Second Screen WG
> )that the Presentation API recently went into CR, and that they expect to
> move to PR when there is a second implementation [2]. Anssi mentions that
> if the reference to the Presentation API is dropped from the W3C HTML spec
> it will likely mean they reference the WHAT WG version of HTML instead.
>
> There is an intent to commit from Firefox [3], and two issues tracking
> progress [4] and [5], although there has been no recent activity on either.
>
> The question is whether we should pull the Presentation API out of
> HTML5.2, or leave it there and include a warning in the HTML5.2 spec that
> indicates the current state of interoperability. We've done this
> previously, with Promise rejection handling with rejectionhandled and
> unhandledrejection events in HTML5 1 for example [6].
>
> Comments from the WG would be welcome, either here or on the Github issue
> [2]. This is the last thing we need to decide upon before we take HTML5.2
> to PR, so prompt responses are appreciated.
>
> Léonie.
> [1] https://github.com/w3c/html/issues/969
> [2] https://github.com/w3c/html/pull/1040
> [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.webapi/
> Rjvu-cBJ1TY/r0GeiIbDAIcJ
> [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184036
> [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184073
> [6] http://w3c.github.io/test-results/html51/implementation-report.html
>
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