[w3ctag/design-reviews] Behavior of the "disabled" attribute for HTMLLinkElement (#519)

Hello TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of the behavior of the "disabled" attribute for HTMLLinkElement.

This request is being made at the suggestion of @slightlyoff in this [Intent to Ship thread](https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/3izM5vVo98U/iDLjz_TwAgAJ). This change is an interop-improvement, as the "disabled" attribute was previously poorly specified, and implementations differed. There is a more general need to specify the "disabled" attribute for HTMLStyleElement and SVGStyleElement, and this is discussed [here](https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1081) and [here](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=695984). Perhaps the TAG could weigh in on either the HTMLLinkElement specifically, or these issues generally?

  - Explainer¹ : https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3840 (actually just the issue thread)
  - Specification URL: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4519 (a PR)
  - Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom?label=master&label=experimental&aligned=&q=htmllinkelement-disabled

  - Security and Privacy self-review²: N/A
  - GitHub repo (if you prefer feedback filed there): N/A
  - Primary contacts (and their relationship to the specification):
      - Mason Freed (@mfreed7), Google
      - Emilio Cobos Álvarez (@emilio), Mozilla
  - Organization(s)/project(s) driving the specification: Google, Mozilla 
  - Key pieces of existing multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this specification: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3840 
  - External status/issue trackers for this specification: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5110851973414912


Further details:

  - [X] I have reviewed the TAG's [API Design Principles](https://w3ctag.github.io/design-principles/)
  - Relevant time constraints or deadlines: None
  - The group where the work on this specification is currently being done: WhatWG
  - The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done: WhatWG
  - Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification: Just compat
  - This work is being funded by: Google/Mozilla

We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as (please delete all but the desired option):

  💬 leave review feedback as a **comment in this issue** and @-notify @mfreed7, @emilio


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