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The Browser Testing and Tools Working Group TPAC 2026

Observers are welcome to attend our group meeting. If any observers are interested in participating in the work on the test suite or joining the group, we will happily assist with this.

The meeting will be minuted to the #webdriver IRC channel. All participants and observers are encouraged to join this channel in advance. As chair of the meeting get familiar with the various commands for the W3C IRC bots.

Dial in Details

Agenda

Two slots:

The following agenda is rough and is David's attempt to group concepts together. This can be changed.

Thursday 29 October — direction-setting and network

  • [Henrik] Roadmap prioritisation (spreadsheet).
  • [jgraham] Expanding BiDi scope to LLM-driven/agentic browsers (#1164).
  • [Henrik] vendor-specific naming rule (PR #1140 thread, ~20 min)

Break

  • [Maksim] serialising large/sparse arrays (#1179, ~25 min).
  • [Maksim] network.setCacheBehavior scoping vs emulation (#1170, 30 min)
  • [Maksim] cookies/headers in beforeRequestSent (#1178, 25 min)
  • [Julian] security information for requests (#699, 20 min).
  • [Henrik] Define behavior of browsingContext.navigate for URLs with unsupported or restricted schemes (GitHub issue)

Lunch

  • [Titus] Prompt handling inconsistencies (#1187 #1183).
  • [Maksim] emulation.setSafeAreaInsetsOverride (PR #1077).
  • [jgraham] API for adjusting browser viewport state (GitHub Issue)
  • 15:00–16:00 — [James Craig and Valerie Young] Accessibility Automation update. (cross-ref from ARIA TPAC Wiki)

Friday 30 October — emulation, input/events, and overflow

  • 9:45-10:15 [elkurin] Pre-configure file dialog selection (#1177).
  • [Alex Dunaev] Native find-in-page (#1157).

Break

  • [Euclid] IME support in actions (GitHub Issue) + Add composition action for supporting IMEs (GitHub Issue)
  • [Sasha] periodic screenshots API (#1134, 35 min)
  • [Sasha] lazy iframes (#832, 35 min)
  • [Sasha] log.entryAdded extension / structured errors (GitHub issue, GitHub PR).


Lunch

  • [Sasha] double/triple clicks in action chains (GitHub issue, 35 min).
  • [gsnedders] What counts as "the DOM events generated by the last invocation of the dispatch tick actions steps"? (GitHub Issue). Potentially also related:
    • Pointer action subtype behaviour when subtype is unsupported (GitHub Issue)
    • Element click behavior on touchscreen devices (GitHub Issue))

Break

  • [Henrik] Add a webExtension.listExtensions command (GitHub issue)
  • 15:45–17:00 — Overflow from either day, then wrap-up.


Extra Topic bank:

Meeting Notes

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