Navigation API: deferred commit

[noamr]

WebKittens

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Title of the proposal

Navigation API: deferred commit

URL to the spec

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/nav-history-apis.html#dom-navigateevent-intercept

URL to the spec's repository

https://github.com/whatwg/html

Issue Tracker URL

https://github.com/whatwg/html

Explainer URL

https://github.com/WICG/navigation-api/blob/main/README.md#deferred-commit

TAG Design Review URL

w3ctag/design-reviews#1040

Mozilla standards-positions issue URL

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WebKit Bugzilla URL

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Radar URL

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Description

The current behavior of the navigation API updates the URL and the current history entry immediately when intercepting.
This has been a pain point for early adopters of the API.
This proposal is to make this behavior configurable, allowing the developer using the API to defer the commit behavior and call commit when ready.

[bramus]

This has been a pain point for early adopters of the API.

See WICG/navigation-api#277 for an example of such a struggle.

[jpzwarte]

CC'ing @cdumez because he is one of the committers working on the Navigation API in WebKit (based on the PRs being merged)