Explainers are documents where we focus on describing a user/ developer/ customer problem and explore potential solutions. These documents are starting points for engaging the community and standards bodies in developing collaborative solutions fit for eventual standardization.

This repo is intended to be a starting place for explainers originating from the Microsoft Edge team (and an archive of the same explainers if/when they migrate to longer-term homes in other repositories such as W3C Community Group/ Working Group or WHATWG workstream repositories).

We welcome public discussion in issues on these explainers. Thanks for your interest! Please file an issue or submit a PR with your feedback. Note that we try to label issues with the explainer they relate to for easy filtering.

• ARIA Virtual Content Explainer
• High Contrast Explainer
• Native Caret Browsing Explainer and Design Doc
• UIA Explainer and intent-to-implement
• WebVTT Caption Styling Explainer

• Audio Stream Category
• Hardware-offloaded Audio Processing explainer

• Password Reveal Explainer
• Standardized Form Controls

• EditContext API Explainer
• Highlight API Editor's Draft Highlight API Explainer
• Highlight Events Explainer
• PenEvents Explainer and Design Doc
• TSF1 Explainer
• pen-action Explainer
• Web Ink Enhancement Explainer archived initial explainer
• Virtual Keyboard API
• Virtual Keyboard Policy

• End User Defined Characters (EUDC) Explainer

• CSS Modules Explainer archived initial explainer
• HTML Modules Explainer, archived initial explainer, and intent-to-implement
• JSON Modules intent-to-implement
• Synthetic Module Record Design Doc
• Media Cache Reduction Explainer
• Media Blob Explainer

• Arbitrary Text Fragments Explainer

• Autofill Reauthentication
• Time-limited Permissions Explainer
• Principles: Auditing Privacy on the Web

• Run on OS Login Explainer
• Cache API Response Metadata Explainer
• Custom Dialog on Close Explainer
• Install Time Permissions Prompt
• Title Bar Customization Explainer
• URL Protocol Handler Registration for PWAs Explainer

• Impl Threaded Scrollbar scrolling intent-to-implement

• Storage Access API Explainer

• Window segments enumeration API Explainer

• ImageResource color_scheme Explainer
• Shortcuts Explainer

• Bidirectional WebDriver Protocol Explainer

• Frame Timing Use Cases

• Native GLTF Pre-explainer