Hello TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of the behavior of the "disabled" attribute for HTMLLinkElement.

This request is being made at the suggestion of @slightlyoff in this Intent to Ship thread. This change is an interop-improvement, as the "disabled" attribute was previously poorly specified, and implementations differed. There is a more general need to specify the "disabled" attribute for HTMLStyleElement and SVGStyleElement, and this is discussed here and here. Perhaps the TAG could weigh in on either the HTMLLinkElement specifically, or these issues generally?

• Explainer¹ : https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3840 (actually just the issue thread)
• Specification URL: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/4519 (a PR)
• Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/css/cssom?label=master&label=experimental&aligned=&q=htmllinkelement-disabled
• Security and Privacy self-review²: N/A
• GitHub repo (if you prefer feedback filed there): N/A
• Primary contacts (and their relationship to the specification):
  • Mason Freed (@mfreed7), Google
  • Emilio Cobos Álvarez (@emilio), Mozilla
• Organization(s)/project(s) driving the specification: Google, Mozilla
• Key pieces of existing multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this specification: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3840
• External status/issue trackers for this specification: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5110851973414912

Further details:

• I have reviewed the TAG's API Design Principles
• Relevant time constraints or deadlines: None
• The group where the work on this specification is currently being done: WhatWG
• The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done: WhatWG
• Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this specification: Just compat
• This work is being funded by: Google/Mozilla

We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as (please delete all but the desired option):

💬 leave review feedback as a comment in this issue and @-notify @mfreed7, @emilio