Navigation 101

[noamr]

Logistics

• Date & Time: Wednesday 17th June at 16:30 CEST (local time)
• URL: https://meet.jit.si/WEH2026-navigation
• Notes: https://hackmd.io/@rego/WEH2026-navigation/edit
• Room: HTML Room (rooms 9 + 10)

Facilitator(s)

@noamr (Google) @farre (Mozilla)

Summary

A shallow+deep dive into how one of the most complex parts of the HTML spec works - navigation.
How browser UI navigation, the classic history API, the navigation API, and all kind of other APIs act together and how that mechanism expresses itself both in the standard and in the different implementations.

Prepare for a mind bend.

Type

Onsite

Other comments

@noamr will join remotely, @farre on site.
Hopefully @jakearchibald would participate as the proud inventor of Jake diagrams.

[jakearchibald]

Yeahhhhhhh I'll come along to this

[noamr]

Now that I've signed up for this session I should probably get familiar with how navigation works.

[jakearchibald]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lvQvdeF8U might be useful - I went through some of the cases that surprised me when I first looked into this stuff.

[noamr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lvQvdeF8U might be useful - I went through some of the cases that surprised me when I first looked into this stuff.

Oh yea I think I watched it at the time and then had the last couple of years of sweating over navigation API interop issues after Domenic left so maybe it's time to get back to it :)

[mrego]

We're proposing Wednesday 17th June at 16:30 CEST (local time) for this session.

If that's a problem, please let us know to try to find another slot in the scheduling.

[farre]

@noamr: I started codifying the questions from @jakearchibald's video, and it's a really fun format. If we tweak the questions a bit to cover all the entry points into session history and navigations we could have a neat MacGuffin for the session.

[noamr]

@noamr: I started codifying the questions from @jakearchibald's video, and it's a really fun format. If we tweak the questions a bit to cover all the entry points into session history and navigations we could have a neat MacGuffin for the session.

Thanks will take a look!

[farre]

Link to the live version