Weekly github digest (HTML specs) from W3C Webmaster via GitHub API on 2026-03-09 (public-html@w3.org from March 2026)

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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:00:29 +0000
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Issues
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* w3c/html-aam (+0/-0/💬1)
  1 issues received 1 new comments:
  - #602 Restore `rb` and `rtc` (1 by spectranaut)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aam/issues/602 

* w3c/webcomponents (+1/-1/💬0)
  1 issues created:
  - we components (by sinbat5500-crypto)
    https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/1122 [invalid] 

  1 issues closed:
  - we components https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/1122 [invalid] 

* whatwg/html (+6/-4/💬57)
  6 issues created:
  - HTMLOrSVGElement.focus() implies that the element should be scrolled into view when it isn't a focusable area (by mrobinson)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12231 [needs tests] [topic: focus] 
  - Content rating meta tag for end users (by linusmartensson)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12230 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - The selectedcontent element can't be used outside of the select element (by josepharhar)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12227 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: select] 
  - Window.customElements shouldn't change when initial about:blank is replaced with a loaded page? (by smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12226 [topic: custom elements] 
  - Intercepted navigate events can call handlers on aborted navigate events (by farre)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12225 [topic: navigation] 
  - [forms] Should we reconsider <input type=email>'s selection API support? (by emilio)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12224 [topic: forms] 

  30 issues received 57 new comments:
  - #12227 The selectedcontent element can't be used outside of the select element (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12227 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: select] 
  - #12226 Window.customElements shouldn't change when initial about:blank is replaced with a loaded page? (5 by annevk, dataCenter430, smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12226 [topic: custom elements] 
  - #12225 Intercepted navigate events can call handlers on aborted navigate events (2 by farre)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12225 [topic: navigation] 
  - #12224 [forms] Should we reconsider <input type=email>'s selection API support? (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12224 [topic: forms] 
  - #12222 #commit-a-navigate-event needs to defer calling intercept handlers. (4 by farre, noamr, zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12222 [topic: navigation] 
  - #12221 Proposal: for a native <type-writer> element for declarative, accessible text animation. (1 by shahabulalamovi)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12221 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - #12214 `fetch a single module script` always defaults to javascript modules for top level fetches (1 by KurtCattiSchmidt)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12214 [topic: fetch] [topic: script] 
  - #12213 Cloning a template's content into another template's shadow tree doesn't update its custom element registry (3 by annevk, ja-y-son, keithamus)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12213 [topic: custom elements] 
  - #12209 HTML fragment parsing algorithm needs to set its document's custom element registry (2 by keithamus, noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12209 [topic: parser] [topic: custom elements] 
  - #12199 option and optgroup rendering requirements (4 by annevk, lukewarlow)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12199 [topic: rendering] [topic: select] 
  - #12190 Implementation-defined ordering of task queues leading to interoperability issue with `popstate` and `hashchange` events (3 by annevk, avandolder, smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12190 [topic: navigation] [topic: timing] 
  - #12179 Meeting 37 for joint OpenUI-WHATWG/HTML-CSSWG task force on styleable form controls (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12179 
  - #12178 "create a link request" assertion can be hit (1 by noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12178 
  - #12165 Assert violation in 'resolve the finished promise' for non-intercepted same-document traversals (2 by farre)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12165 [topic: navigation] 
  - #12157 Popover light dismiss pointerup behaviour is too aggressive (1 by smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12157 [topic: popover] 
  - #12150 Platform-Provided Behaviors for Custom Elements (1 by keithamus)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12150 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - #12126 The condition for user activation notification is ambiguous (1 by EdgarChen)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12126 [topic: user activation] 
  - #12107 Business impact of removing XSLT from the HTML Standard (2 by mfreed7, myx)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12107 
  - #12103 Re: Issue #11523 Removal of XSLT from the web platform (2 by jjwhitmore, mfreed7)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12103 
  - #12096 selectedcontent removing steps vs pagehide (and unload) (2 by annevk, josepharhar)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12096 [topic: select] 
  - #12068 <link rel=preload> supported destinations are inconsistent between sections (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12068 
  - #11856 `controls` attribute for `<img>` element (3 by annevk, dalecurtis)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11856 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: img] [agenda+] 
  - #11825 Option selectedness when all children are removed from select (1 by josepharhar)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11825 [topic: select] 
  - #11694 Popover: Implicit anchor element removed too early (1 by mfreed7)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11694 [agenda+] [topic: popover] 
  - #11564 toggle and beforetoggle events for the select element (2 by lukewarlow, teetotum)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11564 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: select] 
  - #11542 Out of order HTML streaming ("patching") (2 by justinfagnani, noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11542 [addition/proposal] [topic: parser] [stage: 1] 
  - #11520 What should be the interaction between SharedWorkers and inactive documents (1 by yoshisatoyanagisawa)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11520 [clarification] [topic: workers] 
  - #10650 HTML-in-Canvas (4 by progers, shallawa)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10650 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: canvas] [agenda+] [stage: 1] 
  - #10370 Feature Request: Top Layer Stack Management (1 by IanBellomy)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10370 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - #8682 Support for rel attribute on iframe (1 by jlunman)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/8682 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] [topic: frames/navigables/browsing contexts] 

  4 issues closed:
  - Origin API: need to change MessageEvent https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11993 [topic: origin] 
  - A new API for work during unload https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/10997 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - <link rel=preload> supported destinations are inconsistent between sections https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12068 
  - Content rating meta tag for end users https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/12230 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 

* whatwg/dom (+1/-3/💬6)
  1 issues created:
  - Issue with validate and extract (foo:bar:baz inputs) (by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1453 [topic: nodes] 

  4 issues received 6 new comments:
  - #1453 Issue with validate and extract (foo:bar:baz inputs) (2 by annevk, smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1453 [topic: nodes] 
  - #1449 Document AbortController removal and some improvements (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1449 [topic: aborting] 
  - #1407 attachShadow default custom element registry (2 by annevk, ja-y-son)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1407 [topic: shadow] [topic: custom elements] 
  - #1189 Should TreeWalker be expanded to support shadow roots in support of the selection API? (1 by marchbox)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1189 [topic: shadow] [needs implementer interest] [needs concrete proposal] [topic: nodes] 

  3 issues closed:
  - https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-range-deletecontents may collapse the Range to an invalid position https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1446 [topic: ranges] 
  - Issue with validate and extract (foo:bar:baz inputs) https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1453 [topic: nodes] 
  - attachShadow default custom element registry https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1407 [topic: shadow] [topic: custom elements] 



Pull requests
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* w3c/html-aria (+1/-0/💬1)
  1 pull requests submitted:
  - 572  (by frivoal)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/pull/572 

  1 pull requests received 1 new comments:
  - #572 Restore ruby sub elements rb and rtc (1 by frivoal)
    https://github.com/w3c/html-aria/pull/572 

* whatwg/html (+4/-0/💬49)
  4 pull requests submitted:
  - 12235  (by mikewest)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12235 
  - 12232  (by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12232 
  - 12229  (by jmdyck)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12229 
  - 12223  (by KurtCattiSchmidt)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12223 

  15 pull requests received 49 new comments:
  - #12235 Teach `MessageEvent` to work with origins. (4 by annevk, mikewest)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12235 
  - #12223 Add moduleRequest to modulepreload fetch parameters (8 by Gae24, KurtCattiSchmidt, annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12223 
  - #12205 Fix select option enabled selector (3 by annevk, josepharhar)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12205 
  - #12175 Remove unreachable preload destinations from match-preload-type (1 by KurtCattiSchmidt)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12175 
  - #12174 Clarify the difference between :stalled pseudo-class and stalled event (2 by alastor0325, annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12174 
  - #12118 Parse XML-style <?target data?> processing instructions (3 by foolip, justinfagnani, noamr)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12118 
  - #12008 Skip light dismiss when opening select's picker (1 by josepharhar)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12008 [agenda+] 
  - #11881 Make topmargin and leftmargin attributes apply to both sides (4 by Ahmad-S792, annevk, josepharhar)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11881 
  - #11818 Add <template for> for declarative out-of-order streaming (1 by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11818 [topic: parser] 
  - #11697 Add external <script type=speculationrules> (2 by antosart, hiroshige-g)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11697 
  - #11695 use the afterRemoval steps to clean up implicit anchors (4 by annevk, josepharhar, keithamus, lukewarlow)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11695 [normative change] 
  - #11600 Add extended lifetime shared workers (3 by domfarolino, fergald, yoshisatoyanagisawa)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11600 [addition/proposal] [topic: workers] 
  - #11560 Redact ancestorOrigins using iframe referrerpolicy (1 by zcorpan)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11560 
  - #11536 Change light dismiss to use click events (4 by josepharhar, smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/11536 [agenda+] 
  - #6284 Temporal proposal HTML serialization support (8 by Ms2ger, anba, annevk, dminor, hsivonen, nicolo-ribaudo)
    https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/6284 [addition/proposal] [i18n-tracker] [topic: serialize and transfer] [agenda+] 

* whatwg/dom (+3/-0/💬16)
  3 pull requests submitted:
  - 1456  (by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1456 
  - 1455  (by sideshowbarker)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1455 
  - 1454  (by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1454 

  5 pull requests received 16 new comments:
  - #1456 Support markers on shadow roots (1 by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1456 
  - #1455 Stop using “strictly split” in “validate and extract” (8 by annevk, josepharhar, sideshowbarker, smaug----)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1455 [topic: nodes] 
  - #1454 Define processing instruction attributes (1 by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1454 
  - #1452 Collapse range before mutations in deleteContents and extract (5 by annevk, stevenobiajulu)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1452 
  - #1447 Add Marker interface (1 by foolip)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/pull/1447 


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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