Weekly github digest (WebApps WG specs)

Issues
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* w3c/geolocation-api (+2/-0/💬0)
  2 issues created:
  - Returning a cached position as freshly acquired with an ongoing watchPosition call (by nondebug)
    https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/issues/218 
  - Explain Test Failures and UNTESTED Test Cases in the Implementation Report (by siusin)
    https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/issues/215 

* w3c/IndexedDB (+0/-0/💬1)
  1 issues received 1 new comments:
  - #477 In "object store storage operation", be more explicit about how to handle ConstraintError from an index (1 by hsingh-moz)
    https://github.com/w3c/IndexedDB/issues/477 

* w3c/manifest (+0/-13/💬20)
  15 issues received 20 new comments:
  - #1109 Feature request: "isolate web app" hint (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1109 [Feature Request] 
  - #1092 Way to detect if a web app is installed (2 by benfrancis, diekus)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1092 [Feature Request] [TPAC2025] 
  - #1065 fetched icons fail in chrome when same-origin policy is present (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1065 [question] 
  - #1045 Web Manifest Overrides (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1045 [i18n-needs-resolution] [TPAC2023] [TPAC2025] 
  - #975 Add support for defining a theme color for both light & dark modes (prefers color scheme) (5 by Sascha-Block, aphillips, carlosjeurissen, christianliebel)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/975 [Feature Request] [TPAC2025] 
  - #950 Add `related_applications` and `prefer_related_applications` to WPT (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/950 [Defer] [Web Platform Tests] 
  - #903 Why is purpose a "unordered set of unique space-separated tokens"? (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/903 
  - #866 Add "payment" dictionary for payment app specific properties (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/866 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - #864 Bring back "serviceworker" member (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/864 [Feature Request] [Defer] [App Info] 
  - #862 Provide guidance to UAs on appropriate names for "platform" members (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/862 [Defer] 
  - #844 Icon purpose "splashscreen" and splashscreen text (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/844 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - #841 Add more than one icon at PWA install (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/841 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - #839 [Proposal] 'maximized' and 'minimized' display modes values (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/839 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - #665 Add support for "share_target" property (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/665 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - #617 Add an icon "purpose" for displaying on the theme color (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/617 [Feature Request] [Defer] 

  13 issues closed:
  - fetched icons fail in chrome when same-origin policy is present https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1065 [question] 
  - Icon purpose "splashscreen" and splashscreen text https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/844 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - Web Manifest Overrides https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1045 [i18n-needs-resolution] [TPAC2023] [TPAC2025] 
  - Feature request: "isolate web app" hint https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/1109 [Feature Request] 
  - Add `related_applications` and `prefer_related_applications` to WPT https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/950 [Defer] [Web Platform Tests] 
  - [Proposal] 'maximized' and 'minimized' display modes values https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/839 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - Add more than one icon at PWA install https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/841 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - Why is purpose a "unordered set of unique space-separated tokens"? https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/903 
  - Add "payment" dictionary for payment app specific properties https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/866 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - Bring back "serviceworker" member https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/864 [Feature Request] [Defer] [App Info] 
  - Provide guidance to UAs on appropriate names for "platform" members https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/862 [Defer] 
  - Add support for "share_target" property https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/665 [Feature Request] [Defer] 
  - Add an icon "purpose" for displaying on the theme color https://github.com/w3c/manifest/issues/617 [Feature Request] [Defer] 

* w3c/ServiceWorker (+0/-4/💬4)
  4 issues received 4 new comments:
  - #1201 should FetchEvent.request ever be a range request if we cannot verify if the underlying resource is the same? (1 by monica-ch)
    https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1201 
  - #1194  fetch-frame-resource.https.html has a long timeout to detect page load failed (1 by yoshisatoyanagisawa)
    https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1194 
  - #1165 Allow `None` as value for `Service-Worker-Allowed`. (1 by monica-ch)
    https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1165 
  - #1103 Change the spec so that when a new SW is being registered it's set to not use cache the first time (1 by monica-ch)
    https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1103 

  4 issues closed:
  - Change the spec so that when a new SW is being registered it's set to not use cache the first time https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1103 
  - Touching documents in an "in parallel" section makes no sense https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1108 
  - Allow `None` as value for `Service-Worker-Allowed`. https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1165 
  - messageerror event should use  ExtendableMessageEvent https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1193 

* whatwg/dom (+1/-1/💬11)
  1 issues created:
  - Should `Attr.isConnected` return `false` if element is connected? (by caugner)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1448 

  2 issues received 11 new comments:
  - #1448 Should `Attr.isConnected` return `false` if element is connected? (2 by WebReflection, caugner)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1448 
  - #1422 Option to allow `querySelector` to query shadow roots (9 by annevk, jakearchibald, jonathanKingston)
    https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1422 [needs implementer interest] [addition/proposal] 

  1 issues closed:
  - Should `Attr.isConnected` return `false` if element is connected? https://github.com/whatwg/dom/issues/1448 

* whatwg/webidl (+3/-1/💬6)
  3 issues created:
  - Reconsider advice to leave dictionary members optional when dictionary is used solely as a return type (by weinig)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1567 
  - Support syntax for specifying that an optional record<K, V> has a default value of an empty record<K, V> (by weinig)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1566 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - Is nullable dictionary member a footgun? (by saschanaz)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1565 

  3 issues received 6 new comments:
  - #1567 Reconsider advice to leave dictionary members optional when dictionary is used solely as a return type (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1567 
  - #1566 Support syntax for specifying that an optional record<K, V> has a default value of an empty record<K, V> (4 by annevk, domfarolino, noamr, saschanaz)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1566 [addition/proposal] [needs implementer interest] 
  - #1565 Is nullable dictionary member a footgun? (1 by annevk)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1565 

  1 issues closed:
  - setter syntax should probably be restricted to always return undefined https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/issues/1516 



Pull requests
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* w3c/geolocation-api (+2/-0/💬4)
  2 pull requests submitted:
  - 217  (by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/pull/217 
  - 216  (by reillyeon)
    https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/pull/216 

  2 pull requests received 4 new comments:
  - #216 Update implementation report for idlharness.https.window.js tests (2 by marcoscaceres, reillyeon)
    https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/pull/216 
  - #195 Add support for approximate geolocation (2 by alvinjiooo, siusin)
    https://github.com/w3c/geolocation/pull/195 [TPAC2025] 

* w3c/manifest (+4/-0/💬3)
  4 pull requests submitted:
  - 1205  (by christianliebel)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1205 
  - 1204  (by diekus)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1204 
  - 1203  (by christianliebel)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1203 
  - 1202  (by christianliebel)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1202 

  3 pull requests received 3 new comments:
  - #1205 Add `color_scheme_dark` member and themeable members (1 by christianliebel)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1205 
  - #1200 Tidied up document using tidy-html5 (1 by w3cbot)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1200 
  - #1171 Clarify how manifest image resources are fetched (1 by marcoscaceres)
    https://github.com/w3c/manifest/pull/1171 

* w3c/screen-wake-lock (+1/-0/💬0)
  1 pull requests submitted:
  - 378  (by himorin)
    https://github.com/w3c/screen-wake-lock/pull/378 

* w3c/ServiceWorker (+0/-0/💬2)
  1 pull requests received 2 new comments:
  - #1764 Add race-network-and-cache source to static routing api.  (2 by yoshisatoyanagisawa)
    https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/pull/1764 

* w3c/uievents (+1/-0/💬2)
  1 pull requests submitted:
  - 413  (by danielsakhapov)
    https://github.com/w3c/uievents/pull/413 

  2 pull requests received 2 new comments:
  - #413 Add .pseudoTarget property to selected event types (1 by danielsakhapov)
    https://github.com/w3c/uievents/pull/413 
  - #411 MouseEvent, WheelEvent, and some algorithms moving to pointer events (1 by plehegar)
    https://github.com/w3c/uievents/pull/411 

* whatwg/webidl (+0/-0/💬1)
  1 pull requests received 1 new comments:
  - #1488 Add disposer and async_disposer (1 by dontcallmedom)
    https://github.com/whatwg/webidl/pull/1488 


Repositories tracked by this digest:
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* https://github.com/w3c/badging
* https://github.com/w3c/contact-picker
* https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation
* https://github.com/w3c/FileAPI
* https://github.com/w3c/gamepad
* https://github.com/w3c/geolocation-api
* https://github.com/w3c/image-resource
* https://github.com/w3c/IndexedDB
* https://github.com/w3c/IntersectionObserver
* https://github.com/w3c/manifest
* https://github.com/w3c/pointerlock
* https://github.com/w3c/push-api
* https://github.com/w3c/screen-orientation
* https://github.com/w3c/screen-wake-lock
* https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker
* https://github.com/w3c/uievents
* https://github.com/w3c/web-locks
* https://github.com/w3c/web-share
* https://github.com/whatwg/dom
* https://github.com/whatwg/infra
* https://github.com/whatwg/webidl


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Received on Monday, 2 February 2026 17:00:23 UTC