Problem
Current contributor guidelines requires 2 major browser engines to implement a new Web API for its definition to be added to TS DOM types. https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#why-is-my-fancy-api-still-not-available-here
Seeing as Blink possesses >75% of browser engine market share and is by FAR the quickest engine to implement new web standards and standard proposals, this requirement causes unnecessary hassle and possible runtime errors if manually defined types are incorrect.
For example: https://x.com/CodeWShreyans/status/2000710168980377885?s=20
The Web Navigation API was added to the HTML Spec in 2022, shortly followed by Blink's implementation later the same year. Webkit released their implementation 3 days ago, over 3 years after Blink. Gecko still does not support it.
Solution
Add types to TS when a standard is supported by one major browser engine AND published to the official HTML spec. However to encourage safe use, the type can be possibly undefined until implemented by two major browser engines.
For example:
interface Window {
navigation: Navigation | undefined
}
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Problem
Current contributor guidelines requires 2 major browser engines to implement a new Web API for its definition to be added to TS DOM types. https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-DOM-lib-generator#why-is-my-fancy-api-still-not-available-here
Seeing as Blink possesses >75% of browser engine market share and is by FAR the quickest engine to implement new web standards and standard proposals, this requirement causes unnecessary hassle and possible runtime errors if manually defined types are incorrect.
For example: https://x.com/CodeWShreyans/status/2000710168980377885?s=20
The Web Navigation API was added to the HTML Spec in 2022, shortly followed by Blink's implementation later the same year. Webkit released their implementation 3 days ago, over 3 years after Blink. Gecko still does not support it.
Solution
Add types to TS when a standard is supported by one major browser engine AND published to the official HTML spec. However to encourage safe use, the type can be possibly undefined until implemented by two major browser engines.
For example: