This project collects web developer signals (interest, needs, wants) for web platform features that are not yet Baseline. The work is done within the W3C WebDX Community Group.
The repository contains an open issue for each Web platform feature defined in web-features that is neither Baseline nor discouraged. Issues collect use cases for the feature and expressions of support through thumbs up reactions (👍).
Weekly digests that summarize recent activity in the repository are sent to the public mailing-list of the WebDX Community Group (public-webdx@w3.org). A web-features-signals.json file is also updated on a daily basis with the total number of upvotes per feature.
Signals collected in this repository are intended to complete signals collected through other means, including:
- Survey results, for example from State of CSS or MDN short surveys
- Developer interviews, such as those done for the MDN Browser Compatibility Report 2020
- Browser bugs, including upvote/star counts
- Blogs, podcasts, or social media
This project is only about collecting signals around web platform features, not about conducting or coordinating more thorough research. For that, see the WebDX research workstream.
A discussion on organizing developer signals around features led to the creation of this project, see that discussion for more background.
This work is exploratory and will be shaped by what we learn through experimentation. If you'd like to contribute, please file issues or send pull requests, and consider joining the W3C WebDX Community Group!
All participants are expected to follow the project's Code of Conduct.