Bug 258384 – Implement the navigation API

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit Misc.

[Domenic Denicola]

Spec PR: https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/8502

Spec URL (once merged): https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#navigation-api

Tests: https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/tree/master/navigation-api

Standards positions: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/34

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/111490471>

[Karl Dubost]

The lack of this API creates a Webcompat issue on reddit.com
https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/136535

[Tim Nguyen (:ntim)]

This is shipping in STP and 26.2 beta.

[Thomas Jensen]

(In reply to Tim Nguyen (:ntim) from comment #3)
> This is shipping in STP and 26.2 beta.

According to MDN's compatibility data (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation_API#browser_compatibility) 26.2 only ships partial support. Is that right? If so, is this bug considered resolved because there is not plan to support more of the Navigation API, or is that a mistake?

[Karl Dubost]

Let's see 
https://webstatus.dev/features/navigation
https://wpt.fyi/results/navigation-api?label=master&label=stable&aligned

There are still small differences but it's getting worked out little by little. 

In stable version
https://wpt.fyi/results/navigation-api?label=master&label=stable&aligned&q=safari%3Afail%20or%20chrome%3Afail

In nightly/canary/STP
https://wpt.fyi/results/navigation-api?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&q=safari%3Afail%20or%20chrome%3Afail

There is also the set of tests which was selected for the interop 2025 project
https://wpt.fyi/results/navigation-api?label=master&label=experimental&aligned&view=interop&q=label%3Ainterop-2025-navigation