Contact emails [email protected], [email protected] Explainer https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/9754
Specification https://whatpr.org/html/9754/input.html#dom-select-showpicker Summary Developers have been asking for a way to programmatically open the option picker of a select element. See https://www.google.com/search?q=programmatically+open+select+site%3Astackoverflow.com This is currently impossible in almost every browser. Providing showPicker() gives developers a supported way to do this. Following the pattern of input.showPicker(). Blink component Blink>Forms Search tags showPicker TAG review https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/900 TAG review status Pending Risks Interoperability and Compatibility For interoperability: This feature could end up not being implemented by all browsers, to mitigate this it's been filed as a HTML spec change with positions requested early to get everyone on board. For compatibility: this feature is specified and designed to give browsers flexibility in whether they display a picker, or how they display it. Developers cannot observe either of these. Having said that all browsers implement pickers for select. Gecko: No signal (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/886) WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/258) Web developers: No signals Other signals: Ergonomics There should be no ergonomic risks with this API. Activation This is as simple an API as possible so should be easy for developers to make use of. It also follows the existing pattern from the HTMLInputElement. Security This API can only be used with activation inside of top level or same-origin frames. This should avoid any potential security issues. It also follows the existing pattern of HTMLInputElement showPicker() WebView application risks Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications? None Debuggability No specific DevTools changes are required. This feature is treated like any other JS method. Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)? Yes Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests? No Flag name on chrome://flags #enable-experimental-web-platform-features Finch feature name HTMLSelectElementShowPicker Requires code in //chrome? False Tracking bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1485010 Availability expectation I expect this to be available in all browsers within 12 months of launch in Chrome. Adoption expectation Feature is considered a best practice for some use case within 12 months of reaching Web Platform baseline. Sample links https://select-show-picker.glitch.me Estimated milestones Shipping on desktop 119 DevTrial on desktop 119 Shipping on Android 119 DevTrial on Android 119 Shipping on WebView 119 Anticipated spec changes Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of the API in a non-backward-compatible way). https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/9757 - The spec (both input and select) may be updated to allow showPicker to focus a control where required for implementation. This is not required by blink and thus should have no impact. Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status https://chromestatus.com/feature/5111537299881984 Links to previous Intent discussions Intent to prototype: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/521EB459-1D15-44B8-BC84-5F022100BB00%40gmail.com This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "blink-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAE-V8gDmRQCqzrTM%3D8Je4Zin-ViNYoDn1WrUraRZmbobP7Rn3w%40mail.gmail.com.
