WICG/soft-navigations

Heuristics to detect Single Page Apps soft navigations

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Last GitHub push: Aug 26, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Drop navigationId to avoid duplication with Performance Timeline Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

WICG/soft-navigations#90 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Should the spec explicitly define how NAVIGATION-TIMING adds a navigationId, or is this implied? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#78 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Evaluate splitting the specification into two separate parts. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WICG/soft-navigations#74 · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Consider exposing "Active Interaction" as a first class API (Related to: transient user activation) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

WICG/soft-navigations#72 · Opened Jun 2, 2026
Consider URL selection criteria for "Replace" state url traversal when there is also a "Push" traversal after it. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#69 · 3 comments · Opened May 26, 2026
Consider additional paint criteria for "Replace" state url traversal. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#68 · Opened May 26, 2026
Clean up introduction section (to introduce spec dependencies in a logical order). Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

WICG/soft-navigations#67 · Opened May 26, 2026
Non normative text on overlapping-interactions needs a bit of clarification. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#66 · Opened May 26, 2026
NavigationId assignment at "queue PerformanceEntry" works poorly with async Presentation time PaintTimingMixin. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WICG/soft-navigations#65 · Opened May 26, 2026
Remove spec wording for "last URL value" (unused), but consider reporting more URL attribution (e.g. referrer). Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#63 · 5 comments · Opened May 25, 2026
`navigationId` on PerformanceEntry just means "belongs within navigation" but can be confused with "measures a navigation" Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

WICG/soft-navigations#62 · Opened May 25, 2026
Evaluate adding an attribute for "first URL update time" Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#60 · 1 comment · Opened May 21, 2026
Section 6.4 (Container Timing) doesn't handle repaints of modified inline elements (text aggregation) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

WICG/soft-navigations#57 · Opened May 19, 2026
Section 6.4 (Container Timing) doesn't handle direct text node modification Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

WICG/soft-navigations#56 · Opened May 19, 2026
"previously reported paints" isn't correct in section 6.4 (Container Timing) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WICG/soft-navigations#55 · 3 comments · Opened May 19, 2026
`SoftNavigationEntry.largestInteractionContentfulPaint` is `null` when navigation is triggered via `startViewTransition()` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WICG/soft-navigations#52 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Consider building task attribution on top of AsyncContext Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WICG/soft-navigations#44 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 23, 2024
Broken references in Soft Navigations Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

WICG/soft-navigations#42 · Opened Jan 24, 2024
Soft navigations triggered by mouse up not detected Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

WICG/soft-navigations#40 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Dec 29, 2023
The task attribution algorithms don't seem to account for parallel task queuing Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

WICG/soft-navigations#37 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 6, 2023
form select "onchange" causing form.submit does not trigger a soft-nav... Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

WICG/soft-navigations#15 · 3 comments · Opened May 4, 2023
API for manually emitting soft-navigations? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

WICG/soft-navigations#13 · 13 comments · 8 reactions · Opened Feb 7, 2023

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