FPWD Request for EditContext API - edit-context

[siusin]

Document title, URLs, estimated publication date

EditContext API
https://www.w3.org/TR/edit-context/
W3C First Public Working Draft 24 October 2024

Abstract

The EditContext is a new API that allows authors to more directly participate in the text input process.

Status

This document was published by the Web Editing Working Group as a First Public Working Draft using the Recommendation track.
Publication as a First Public Working Draft does not imply endorsement by W3C and its Members.
This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.
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This document is governed by the 03 November 2023 W3C Process Document.

Is it a delta specification intended to become a W3C Recommendation?

Yes.

Link to group's decision to request transition

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-editing-tf/2024Oct/0002.html
w3c/edit-context#109

Issues

https://github.com/w3c/edit-context/issues

Information about implementations known to the Working Group

It has been shipped in Chromium and Edge.
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/yOxNDSaviyU/m/tHfuyAh3BgAJ?pli=1

[aphillips]

Congratulations on requesting FPWD. Because text editing is intrinsically linked to text input and presentation, might I suggest doing an early self-review and requesting an early horizontal review from I18N?