LGTM3

On Monday, April 27, 2026 at 7:48:27 AM UTC-7 Chris Harrelson wrote:

> LGTM2
>
> On Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 7:00 PM Alex Russell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
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