WebKit Standards Positions

2020 WebKit Contributors’ Meeting

webkit-dev

• Request for position on @font-face descriptors ascent/descent/line-gap-override to override font metrics

• Request for position on Atomics.waitAsync
• Request for position on Azimuth/Altitude for Pointer Events

• Request for position on Badging API
• Request for position on Cookie Store API
• Request for position on Element Timing
• Request for position on Event Timing

• Request for position on First-Party Sets
• Request for position on Heavy Ad Intervention
• Request for position on Import Conditions
• Request for position on Media Feeds
• Request for position on MediaRecorder constant bitrate audio encoding
• Request for position on Permissions-Policy header
• Request for position on Pointer Lock Unadjusted Movement Option
• Request for position on Readable Byte Streams

Publish our standards positions on webkit.org

Like the WebKit Feature Status page

jond has a prototype

Inspiration: Mozilla Specification Positions

Positions requested in GitHub issues

Mozilla is a single organization

Apple, Igalia, Sony, etc.

How do we come to consensus on a WebKit position?

Let’s introduce as little process as possible

Proposal

• new GitHub repo under https://github.com/WebKit/
• Folks can request a position by filing an issue
• Community comes to consensus in issue comments
• Update features.json & close issue

Q & A