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New Features Awaiting Implementation Interest

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There are features that have been requested, but for which we are lacking implementor interest. Without two or more vendors interested in implementing the feature, they are unlikely to get added to the specs.

Feature Interest indicated by... Comments
Mozilla (Firefox) Opera Microsoft (IE) Apple (Safari) Google (Chrome) Others
Progress events on IMG elements Jonas Sicking Dean Jackson Will likely be added soon
Cross-origin seamless iframes Boris Zbarsky Adam Barth Will likely be added soon
Canvas: isPointInStroke Jeff Muizelaar
Canvas: fillRule Chris Jones
HTMLCanvasElement.printCallback API Julian Viereck
<meta name="referrer"> Adam Barth
A method to trigger autofill Elliott Sprehn, Peter Kasting
Prerendering APIs Gavin Peters
<template> (bug) Rafael Weinstein
APIs for 'palpable' content (at the bottom) Ojan Vofai
Some way to add files to <input type=file> Nico Weber
Appcache: More detail in error events David Barrett-Kahn
The <menu> feature with many elements providing commands Negative interest Will likely be dropped if no interest is indicated soon
Appcache: Interceptor Worker Needs use cases as well
FormData
Canvas: Stroke alignment
Canvas: control over when shadows paint
img@srcset: a mechanism to enable adaptive images
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video playback metrics (see suggestion in note 7)

See also: Who to ask about stuff