[w3ctag/design-reviews] WG New Spec: Programmatic Scroll Promise (Issue #1210)

mustaqahmed created an issue (w3ctag/design-reviews#1210)

### Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#extension-to-the-element-interface

### Explainer

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/promisify-scroll/

### Links

- The WG's request for this TAG review: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1562 (no explicit request from CSSWG).
- Previous early design review, if any: N/A
- An introduction to the feature, aimed at unfamiliar audiences: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/promisify-scroll/blob/main/README.md#introduction
- A description of the problems that end-users were facing before this proposal: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/promisify-scroll/blob/main/README.md#use-cases
- Alternatives considered: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/promisify-scroll/blob/main/README.md#considered-alternatives
- Examples of how to use the proposal to solve the end-users' problems: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/promisify-scroll/blob/main/README.md#how-this-solution-would-solve-the-use-cases
- What do the end-users experience with this proposal: https://codepen.io/mustaqahmed/full/gbpmNOP
- User research you did to validate the problem and/or design, if any: N/A.
- Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom-view?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=element-scroll-promise%20or%20window-scroll-promise


### The specification

- [x] Follows the [Web Platform Design Principles](https://www.w3.org/TR/design-principles/).
- [ ] Includes Security and Privacy Considerations sections based on answers to the [Security/Privacy Questionnaire](https://www.w3.org/TR/security-privacy-questionnaire/).

### Where and by whom is the work is being done?

- GitHub repo: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/promisify-scroll/tree/main
- Primary contacts:
  - Mustaq Ahmed (@mustaqahmed), spec writer and Blink implementer engineer.
- Organization/project driving the specification: Google Chrome/Blink
- This work is being funded by: Google Chrome
- Primary standards group developing this feature: CSSWG
- Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
  - https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1562#issuecomment-389586317
  - https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12495#issuecomment-4040657058


### Feedback so far

- Active horizontal reviews: TBD
- Multi-stakeholder feedback:
  - Chromium comments: https://crbug.com/41406914
  - Mozilla comments: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1379
  - WebKit comments: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/639
  - {{...include feedback/review from developers, implementers, civil society, and others}}
- Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification:
- Status/issue trackers for implementations: [Chrome Status](https://chromestatus.com/feature/5082138340491264).


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