Summary: `popover=hint` attribute changed behaviours to smooth over some edge 
cases 
Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2029974
Specification: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#attr-popover-hint-state
Standards Body: WHATWG
Platform coverage: All
Preference: N/A
Devtools bug: N/A
Other browsers:
  - Blink: Shipping original behaviour in M133, new behaviour in M150.
  - WebKit: Positive (https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/305).
web-platform-tests: Extensive WPTs, for e.g. 
https://wpt.fyi/results/html/semantics/popovers/popover-light-dismiss-hint.html 
https://wpt.fyi/results/html/semantics/popovers/popover-top-layer-nesting-hints.html

popover=hint was proposed as a focus area for Interop 2026 
(https://github.com/web-platform-tests/interop/issues/1129). We shipped support 
for this in 149. Over the past few months we (predominantly Jake Archibald) 
have been discovering several edge cases which has let to some work to redefine 
the behaviours for this feature. I've been working alongside, refactoring per 
the spec changes, in https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D292397.

Blink have been landing their changes around this, including WPTs. This has 
caused us to regress our Interop 2026 score from 100% to 93.1%. We acknowledge 
and anticipated this. Landing D292397 
<https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D292397> should bring us back to 100% 
(modulo also landing https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/pull/59955).

I intend to land this shortly (today or tomorrow). This new behaviour will 
therefore likely land in 153, after riding the nightly trains for a full cycle. 
We do not anticipate any issues, the behaviour changes make this feature more 
useful and understandable, nevertheless if we encounter issues we have plenty 
of time to discover & adapt or roll back.

If anyone has any concerns please let me know!

Happy browsing.

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