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100% agreed. Same thought I had when I worked with other UI toolkits; you bring it in and it "requires" a Label by default and thus is accessible out of the box. Swift is a great example.
I doubt we will ever get HTML leaner unless we do a DOCTYPE versioning approach that rips out legacy aspects within the engine but that would enable backwards compat to still exist so that the Space Jam site from the 90 can still run in 2300.
With regards to Discord, that's simply used in place of IRC for informal discussions. All potentially "normative" discussions occur within the Github issues and minutes are recorded as with other W3C groups via our IRC Channel. Thanks for the feedback :)
Yeah, all are in various stages. And yeah, Keith's proposal takes the popovertarget to a generic approach and will be great to have in the platform!
Other primitives that we're actively working on in addition to that is focusgroup which I think likewise will be of value.
And finally, <select> - that is the one that is "closest" to getting a full makeover in HTML. We're wanting to fully land that one which will hopefully create a fly-wheel and help "speed" this up a bit.
The Edge platform team will be triaging them, I am one of them that has been triaging them. One suggestion is to ensure that it is truly a reduction, we built this for webdevs that have reductions and just don't want to file them and we don't want to miss out on those.
On your statement though regarding them being closed out. How long ago was that?