https://github.com/whatwg/html/wiki/dialog--initial-focus,-a...
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/8199
- Argued that dialog should be removed: 2018
- Tried to force-remove confirm/prompt: mid-2021
- Dialog rushed into all browsers: March 8-14, 2022.
- The linked proposal for a fix: March 04, 2022
- Request for position on standard: Jan 18, 2023
- The proposal merged into the standard: Jan 26, 2023
- Implemented in browsers: ?? (Webkit is possibly July 2024: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250795)
"Actually"
Dialog was literally rushed into all browsers without bothering to fix the issues that plagued it for a decade. Some of them were fixed post-factum because now you couldn't ignore these issues.
- Argued that dialog should be removed: 2018
- Tried to force-remove confirm/prompt: mid-2021
- Dialog rushed into all browsers: March 8-14, 2022.
- The linked proposal for a fix: March 04, 2022
- Request for position on standard: Jan 18, 2023
- The proposal merged into the standard: Jan 26, 2023
- Implemented in browsers: ?? (Webkit is possibly July 2024: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250795)
"Actually"
Dialog was literally rushed into all browsers without bothering to fix the issues that plagued it for a decade. Some of them were fixed post-factum because now you couldn't ignore these issues.