I hate behavior changes and respellings, but agree in this case that it isn't too late.
Having discussed this situation at length with Jake, I'll grudgingly LGTM1 with a note that the API OWNERS should likely discuss how these gaps were missed. Best, Alex On Sat, Apr 25, 2026, 12:01 PM Jake Archibald <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, 24 April 2026 at 12:01:27 UTC-4 [email protected] wrote: > > It is unfortunate that this detailed review didn't happen at the time of > the landing of the specs, or the shipping of this feature in Chrome, but > it's good that it eventually did happen. > > > Yeah, +1 to this. It's a complicated feature building on a complicated > feature, so there being rough edges in the initial spec aren't surprising, > so the 'failure' here is entirely in review by others. > > I noticed these issues when I tried to document the differences between > popover=auto and popover=hint, and discovered that I couldn't make it make > sense. Behaviours would flip unexpectedly, and I couldn't justify why those > behaviours existed. I was surprised that it felt like I was the first > person to review this feature in this detail (i.e., just below the surface). > > This level of review should have happened within Chrome, but it also > should have happened by other orgs. > > My guess is that, given the spec is complicated, it was difficult to > figure out the resulting behaviours from the spec, so it was missed in the > HTML PR. When I came to it, I had the advantage of two implementations to > play with. But that could have been done much sooner. > > That aside, I'm really happy how this has turned out. I know it's a pain > in the arse to revisit this stuff after it feels 'done', so I'm really > grateful to Mason for working on it. > > Jake. > > -- > 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 visit > https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/fed50fba-77dc-4100-b8ce-ea3ce357a19bn%40chromium.org > <https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/fed50fba-77dc-4100-b8ce-ea3ce357a19bn%40chromium.org?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 visit https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CAA44PQhH%3DVqfTPPF3FRmc7c%2B38y%3DV50YvNfAoVgyhW9HwyZXYw%40mail.gmail.com.
