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Jen Simmons Jun 14, 2023

Dear web developers & designers,

Now that you know what’s coming in Safari 17 — as well as what shipped in Safari 16.2-16.5 — what do you need in WebKit next?

Which web technology that’s already been standardized is highest priority? What brand new idea do you need invented?

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castastrophe Jun 14, 2023

@jensimmons I'd love to see the browser devs come together to create a really intuitive set of styling pseudos or methodologies for shadow dom! I get a ton of questions about slotted relationships and gotchas and would love to have a strong set of tools to offer themers.

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castastrophe Jun 14, 2023

@jensimmons I also think there's a real opportunity for webkit to lead in this space. It's an area with lots of opportunity for creative solutions and a misconception in the community that safari doesn't care about web components. We could totally correct that!

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Christian "Schepp" Schaefer

@castastrophe @jensimmons I'd also love Apple to pick up on their idea of HTML Template Instantiation back from 2017: https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/blob/gh-pages/proposals/Template-Instantiation.md
I think Web Components still could use better DX and that would help a lot.

webcomponents/proposals/Template-Instantiation.md at gh-pages · WICG/webcomponents

Web Components specifications. Contribute to WICG/webcomponents development by creating an account on GitHub.

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