Weekly github digest (HTML specs) from W3C Webmaster via GitHub API on 2025-12-22 (public-html@w3.org from December 2025)

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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:00:25 +0000
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Issues
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* w3c/html-aam (+1/-0/💬0)
  1 issues created:
  - update img alt accname calculation to match aria-label (by pkra)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/595 

* w3c/html-aria (+0/-1/💬2)
  1 issues received 2 new comments:
  - #471 Confusing TR urls (2 by daniel-montalvo, patrickhlauke)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/issues/471 

  1 issues closed:
  - Confusing TR urls https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/issues/471 

* w3c/webcomponents (+1/-0/💬6)
  1 issues created:
  - Reference Target: feedback from developers (by alice)
    https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/1120 

  1 issues received 6 new comments:
  - #1069 [templates] A declarative JavaScript templating API (6 by atzufuki, justinfagnani, mizchi)
    https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/1069 

* whatwg/html (+7/-3/💬33)
  7 issues created:
  - Stopping recursion in customElementRegistry.initialize across different custom element registries (by Jamesernator)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12035 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: custom elements] 
  - Upcoming WHATNOT meeting on 01-08-2026 (by cwilso)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12034 [agenda+] 
  - Investigate snapshot timing of allow/allowfullscreen attributes (by zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12033 [topic: frames/navigables/browsing contexts] [integration] 
  - [focus-without-user-activation] Parent frame should be able to focus a child with policy denied (by ffiori)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12032 
  - Unloading document steps run twice when unloading unsalvageable documents (by TimvdLippe)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12029 
  - Navigation API: Dead lock in "Performing a navigation api traversal" (by theIDinside)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12028 [topic: navigation] 
  - Consider dropping DOCTYPE system/public identifier missing/empty distinction (by sirreal)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12023 [topic: parser] [needs tests] 

  19 issues received 33 new comments:
  - #12035 Stopping recursion in customElementRegistry.initialize across different custom element registries (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12035 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: custom elements] 
  - #12033 Investigate snapshot timing of allow/allowfullscreen attributes (1 by zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12033 [topic: frames/navigables/browsing contexts] [integration] 
  - #12029 Unloading document steps run twice when unloading unsalvageable documents (1 by TimvdLippe)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12029 
  - #12028 Navigation API: Dead lock in "Performing a navigation api traversal" (2 by noamr, zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12028 [topic: navigation] 
  - #12023 Consider dropping DOCTYPE system/public identifier missing/empty distinction (5 by annevk, sirreal, zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12023 [topic: parser] [needs tests] 
  - #12015 Upcoming WHATNOT meeting on 2025-12-18 (2 by KurtCattiSchmidt, cwilso)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12015 
  - #12012 Meeting 33 for joint OpenUI-WHATWG/HTML-CSSWG task force on styleable form controls (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12012 
  - #12007 What Does It Mean to Use tabindex=-1 on a type=radio Input Element? (1 by nishtha-agarwal-211)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12007 
  - #11975 Revert "Switch dialog/popover to using place-self:dialog" (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11975 [topic: style] [integration] 
  - #11968 (scroll-to-text) Allow limiting the number of scroll fragments (1 by vmpstr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11968 
  - #11880 Clearing non-primary selectedcontent elements is broken (1 by F3n67u)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11880 [topic: select] 
  - #11860 Navigation API: Dangling ongoing navigate event causes inconsistent behavior in tests (1 by noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11860 [topic: navigation] 
  - #11839 [focus-without-user-activation] Clarify focus behavior for subframes with denied policy (4 by ffiori, noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11839 
  - #11669 Coherent story for HTML-setting methods (1 by noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11669 [topic: parser] 
  - #11542 Out of order HTML streaming ("patching") (1 by cwilso)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11542 [addition/proposal] [topic: parser] [agenda+] [stage: 1] 
  - #11449 Writing Mode for Canvas text (5 by jyasskin, schenney-chromium, tkent-google)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11449 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: canvas] 
  - #11348 Add form persistence (1 by FrameMuse)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11348 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: forms] 
  - #5680 Audit auxiliary browsing context checks (1 by rozanekmilena-glitch)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5680 [topic: frames/navigables/browsing contexts] 
  - #4446 History traversal and the request's `origin`. (2 by annevk, terjanq)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4446 [topic: history] 

  3 issues closed:
  - Disallowed characters for `<input type="number">` on desktop https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11896 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: forms] 
  - Upcoming WHATNOT meeting on 2025-12-18 https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12015 
  - Base appearance for list box select elements https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11477 [topic: select] 

* whatwg/dom (+1/-1/💬6)
  1 issues created:
  - Support for building an optimal, nested CSSStylesheet programmatically (by bahrus)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1442 [needs implementer interest] [addition/proposal] 

  4 issues received 6 new comments:
  - #1440 Implementations do not match spec behavior for .adoptNode(attr) (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1440 [topic: nodes] 
  - #1439 [meta] MutationObserver improvements tracking issue (3 by LeaVerou, annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1439 
  - #1438 downloads.download() should be appear in the API (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1438 [needs implementer interest] [addition/proposal] 
  - #398 Consider adding localNameFilter to MutationObserver (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/398 [addition/proposal] [needs concrete proposal] [topic: mutation observers] 

  1 issues closed:
  - downloads.download() should be appear in the API https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1438 [needs implementer interest] [addition/proposal] 



Pull requests
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* whatwg/html (+8/-0/💬23)
  8 pull requests submitted:
  - 12039  (by TimvdLippe)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12039 
  - 12038  (by TimvdLippe)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12038 
  - 12031  (by zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12031 
  - 12027  (by jmdyck)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12027 
  - 12026  (by monica-ch)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12026 
  - 12024  (by noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12024 
  - 12022  (by noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12022 
  - 12021  (by jakearchibald)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12021 

  10 pull requests received 23 new comments:
  - #12038 Set creation URL of worker settings to final URL after redirect
 (1 by TimvdLippe)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12038 
  - #12024 Navigation API: nullify ongoing navigate event on successful cross-document navigation (4 by farre, noamr, nt1m)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12024 
  - #12021 Fixing button command early-bail steps (4 by jakearchibald, lukewarlow, mfreed7)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12021 
  - #12011 [Draft] Introduce the new menu elements (1 by mtrootyy)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12011 
  - #11981 Allow "style" and "json" in `as` attribute for `modulepreload` (4 by KurtCattiSchmidt, annevk, noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11981 [agenda+] 
  - #11959 Set "is currently stalled" before firing events (2 by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11959 [normative change] [topic: media] 
  - #11933 Add text imports (1 by eemeli)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11933 [addition/proposal] [topic: script] [needs implementation bugs] 
  - #11758 Define base appearance for list box select elements (2 by josepharhar, zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11758 
  - #11519 [focus-without-user-activation] Allow focus if a descendant has focus (3 by ffiori, smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11519 
  - #11140 Editorial: export Document's showing hint and auto popover lists (1 by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11140 [topic: popover] 


Repositories tracked by this digest:
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* https://github.com/w3c/html-aam
* https://github.com/w3c/html-aria
* https://github.com/w3c/html-extensions
* https://github.com/w3c/htmlwg
* https://github.com/w3c/webcomponents
* https://github.com/whatwg/html
* https://github.com/whatwg/dom


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