WHATWG on 2023-04-07

03:36	<Noam Rosenthal>	Noam Rosenthal: Is https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1088 something in your wheelhouse still? Or do I need to load up that context and solve it myself? It wasn’t in my queue but happy to help
06:37	<sideshowbarker>	Looking at https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/25958/files about `method=dialog` for the `form` element when the `form` is a descendant of a `dialog` element, and looking at the relevant algorithm in the spec at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#form-submission-algorithm:attr-fs-method-dialog, I don’t find where the spec states that when closing the `dialog`, there is a requirement for it to happen “without submitting data or clearing the form”.
06:40	<sideshowbarker>	What the spec at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#attr-fs-method seems to state instead is: If a `form` has `method=dialog` and the `form` is not a descendant of a `dialog`, then in that case the form is not submitted.
06:40	<sideshowbarker>	(Though even in that case the spec doesn’t explicitly state any separate requirement about clearing the form.)
06:49	<sideshowbarker>	* d’oh, nevermind — only just now I notice that the last substep of step 11 at https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/form-control-infrastructure.html#form-submission-algorithm:attr-fs-method-dialog is an early return… (Will delete these messages, because it looks like maybe nobody else has read them yet anyway).
07:52	<Ms2ger>	https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#the-directionality
07:53	<Ms2ger>	bkardell: looks like it means element.parentNode?.nodeType == DOCUMENT_NODE
12:59	<bkardell>	bkardell: looks like it means element.parentNode?.nodeType == DOCUMENT_NODE I mean.. in my head the node type is what i was thinking too.. but Are you saying then the thing i highlighted in my screenshot above is meaningful? Like.. If that is the whole document or something?
13:00	<Ms2ger>	It's phrased a bit weird, but I think it means "there exists a document d for which the element is d's "document element" (root element)
17:11	<TabAtkins>	The root question there tho, is, why is that condition being used, when it seems like the intended condition being checked for is "doesn't have a parent", given that the next and final step is to look at the parent's direction?