Contact emails
jap...@chromium.org, dome...@chromium.org, nrosent...@chromium.org


Explainer
https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/commit/85edaf1d4d42355b020807cd56f6a22784978c3d


Specification
https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html#dom-navigateevent-sourceelement


Summary

When a navigation is initiated by an Element (ie, a link click or a form 
submission), the sourceElement property on the NavigateEvent will be the 
initiating element.



Blink component
Blink>History


TAG review



TAG review status
Not applicable


Risks




Interoperability and Compatibility

None


Gecko: Positive (https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1154)

WebKit: No signal (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/441)

Web developers: Strongly positive 
(https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/issues/225)

Other signals:


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

None



Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, 
ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)?
Yes


Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
Yes
Coverage throughout the navigation-api/ WPT suite: 
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4385906



Flag name on about://flags
None


Finch feature name
NavigateEventSourceElement


Requires code in //chrome?
False


Tracking bug
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40281924


Estimated milestones


Shipping on desktop 135




Anticipated spec changes

Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or interop 
issues. Please list open issues (eg links to known github issues in the project 
for the feature specification) whose resolution may introduce web 
compat/interop risk (eg, changing to naming or structure of the API in a 
non-backward-compatible way).
None


Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5134353390895104?gate=5104580677599232


Links to previous Intent discussions
Intent to Prototype: 
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msgid/blink-dev/CACf%3D2LK%3DHeSj%2B5eQt1O23-TiO6Mai%2Bhdv-E%3DzMguriouYi6gVw%40mail.gmail.com



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