Is this spec living?

[foolip]

I noticed when playing with https://foolip.github.io/day-to-day/ that Loader hasn't had any activity in the last 8 weeks, and in fact there is no directory in web-platform-tests. I'm wondering if I should exclude it or not.

I don't know this space very well, but is this something that would be implemented in JS engines, or on top of them? Is there any implementer interest?

Whatever the state of the document is, making its status clear (in the spec itself) would be great.

[caridy]

I'm wondering if I should exclude it or not.

exclude it.

Whatever the state of the document is, making its status clear (in the spec itself) would be great.

https://github.com/whatwg/loader#status

[foolip]

Thanks, I'll exclude it! I was hoping that the spec itself (https://whatwg.github.io/loader/) would say something about its status, as certainly I would never go looking at the GitHub repo looking for such information.

[rektide]

I was recently pointed to whatwg/html#3161 , which is an attempt to define mappings to allow bare specifiers. That in particular is the use case I'm hoping to see advanced, so I can make use of some of the half-a-million modules in the browser.

That thread also linked to another older general discussion thread on request hooks, whatwg/html#2640

[stevenvachon]

I've been told that it's completely abandoned. The repository's dates would reflect this.

[matthewp]

Last I heard, @caridy is concentrating on Realms as that's needed before they can proceed with this: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-realms

[caridy]

part of this is now solved by import() and imports map. the other part will be feed into the realms proposal.