こんにちは TAG-さん!

I'm requesting a TAG review of the new highlight pseudo-element, ::search-text

This pseudo-element exposes find-in-page search result styling to authors, including selection and spelling errors. It allows authors to change the foreground and background colors or add text decorations, which can be especially useful if the UA defaults are insufficiently contrasted with the page colors or otherwise unsuitable.

Specification

https://drafts.csswg.org/css-pseudo-4/#selectordef-search-text

Explainer

https://github.com/Igalia/explainers/blob/main/css/find-in-page/README.md

Links

• An introduction to the feature, aimed at unfamiliar audiences: https://github.com/Igalia/explainers/blob/main/css/find-in-page/README.md
• A description of the problems that end-users were facing before this proposal: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50309703/css-for-browsers-find-in-page
• Examples of how to use the proposal to solve the end-users' problems: https://github.com/Igalia/explainers/blob/main/css/find-in-page/README.md#example
• Security and Privacy self-review: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qcq2kQRXgAP67wk9aIfECAq4C_JcJN5Zw1Tx7jDnFvI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kr0x0i2en8w3
• Web Platform Tests: third_party/blink/web_tests/wpt_internal/css/css-pseudo/search-text-*

The specification

• Follows the Web Platform Design Principles.
• Includes Security and Privacy Considerations sections based on answers to the Security/Privacy Questionnaire.

Where and by whom is the work is being done?

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/Igalia/explainers/tree/main/css/find-in-page
• Primary contacts:
  • Delan Azabani (@delan), Igalia
  • Jihye Hong (@jihyerish), Igalia
  • Stephen Chenney (@schenney-chromium), Igalia
• Organization/project driving the specification: Igalia
• This work is being funded by: Bloomberg and Igalia
• Primary standards group developing this feature: CSSWG
• Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
  • https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3812 This is the initial idea of this feature. After several discussions, the syntax has been changed

Feedback so far

• Multi-stakeholder feedback:
  • Chromium comments: Positive, https://chromestatus.com/feature/5195073796177920
  • Mozilla comments: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1103
  • WebKit comments: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/421
• Status/issue trackers for implementations: Chromium

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