[w3ctag/design-reviews] New attribute to control UA-provided writing assistance (Issue #924)

こんにちは TAG-さん!

I'm requesting a TAG review of a new attribute named `writingsuggestions` (final name TBD) to control UA-provided writing assistance.

UAs are starting to provide writing suggestions to users as they type on various editable fields across the web (see the [use case](https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/WritingSuggestions/explainer.md#use-case) section below). 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.

We propose the addition of a new attribute called `writingsuggestions` with 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.

  - Explainer¹ (minimally containing user needs and example code): https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/WritingSuggestions/explainer.md
  - Specification URL: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/10018
  - Tests: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/43780
  - User research: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/WritingSuggestions/explainer.md#use-case
  - Security and Privacy self-review²: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/pull/727/files
  - GitHub repo (if you prefer feedback filed there): Feedback can be filed in the WHATWG HTML repo.
  - Primary contacts (and their relationship to the specification):
      - [Sanket Joshi] (sanketj), [Microsoft]
  - Organization(s)/project(s) driving the specification: Microsoft
  - Key pieces of existing multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this specification:
    Spec discussion: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9065 (support from multiple implementors and no objections)
  - External status/issue trackers for this specification (publicly visible, e.g. Chrome Status): Not yet available.

Further details:

  - [X] I have reviewed the TAG's [Web Platform Design Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/)
  - Relevant time constraints or deadlines: We hope to implement and ship this ASAP, so the sooner we can hear back from the TAG, the better.
  - The group where the work on this specification is currently being done: WHATWG HTML
  - The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done (if current group is a community group or other incubation venue): WHATWG HTML
  - Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification: Final name of the attribute is still TBD
  - This work is being funded by: Microsoft

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 sanketj


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