2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

(interop-rank.fxdx.dev)

44 points | by jaffathecake 5 hours ago

7 comments

  • culi 23 minutes ago
    The most broken inconsistency across web browsers is printing, print preview, print-related CSS, etc. No print media related features made it onto this list :(
    • jaffathecake 3 minutes ago
      Anyone could submit a proposal. Look out for that part of the process next year.
  • esafak 7 minutes ago
    I love the ranker. Good job, guys; you should open source it.
  • adverbly 1 hour ago
    Some of these are pretty huge.

    Responsive iframes been a long time coming.

    Good to see.

    • jaffathecake 1 hour ago
      Personally, I like the concept, but not the execution. It only changes its size externally on DOMContentLoaded, and again on load. So, if the user e.g. expands a <details> element, that won't update the size of the iframe. If the width of the main window changes size, resulting in the iframe changing width, resulting in the content within becoming a different height, it won't update the size of the iframe.

      In cases like this, the iframe has to manually call window.requestResize(). And… that just doesn't feel like a big step up from the hacks we do today.

      • dbbk 17 minutes ago
        I remember <iframe seamless> being proposed many many years ago. I wonder why that was rejected.
  • Onavo 1 hour ago
    This needs to support category specific ranking. A feature like WebBiDi has nothing to do with the CSS engine team.
    • jgraham 2 minutes ago
      > A feature like WebBiDi has nothing to do with the CSS engine team.

      This example is almost true, but not entirely. For example the getBoxQuads API was something that testing tools wanted, which led to it being standardised [1]

      More generally there can be surprising dependencies between features when it comes to implementation (e.g. both DOM and layout features might depend on accessibility work).

      So from an implementer point of view, trying to encode the team that would do the work into the ranking tool is harder than it might sound.

      One can imagine providing categories of features to help people find things that they're interested in. The counter argument is that people might just filter down to the kind of proposals they think they want, and end up missing things that were more important but got put in a different category.

      In the end this simple approach proved helpful to us (Mozilla) last year, so we decided to do more or less the same again.

      [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10537

    • culi 22 minutes ago
      Why does that matter? These are browser features in general for the upcoming interop-2027

      The current interop has CSS features, WebRTC, WebTransport, IndexedDB, PWA stuff, etc:

      https://wpt.fyi/interop-2026

  • zb3 3 hours ago
    Where are the proposals without signing in?
    • jaffathecake 3 hours ago
      https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/. But… yeah, they should be on the site even before you log in. Let me fix that…

      Fixed! Thanks for the suggestion. There was a whole read-only mode already there for when the process closes. I just didn't think of using it when the user is logged out.

  • lloydatkinson 3 hours ago
    How’s the gap decoration proposal coming along? Last update was the Edge post introducing it…
    • jaffathecake 2 hours ago
      It's shipped in Chromium only. It's one of the Interop 2027 proposals, so it's one of the choices in the list.