Tabs

[matthewp]

This issue is for standardizing tabs. A few people met today with mutual interest in advancing tabs. Based on my interpretation of that meeting the next steps are to:

• Collaborate on implementation ideas
• Create proposal and research docs here.

For the latter I've added skeleton docs here.

@gregwhitworth is it appropriate to submit a PR for these documents at this time or do we need to collaborate in a shared branch on these documents until a full proposal is ready.

[gregwhitworth]

@matthewp for sure - PRs are welcome at any stage.

I've asked @brandonferrua to lend a hand here in gathering tabs research and get a research page up but if you intend to do that let us know and we can possibly dig into combobox/multi-select research. I'm going to cc @chrisdholt as well since him and I have discussed tabs in the past.

[bkardell]

Since some of it is fairly basic and other stuff is going to require a lot more discussion once someone articulates something, I'm kind of inclined to let MS give us the initial thing rather than trying to recreate any of it... Unless I am mistaken, they already has a fair start on a lot of these items from Fast related work that just need transported over?

[chrisdholt]

Since some of it is fairly basic and other stuff is going to require a lot more discussion once someone articulates something, I'm kind of inclined to let MS give us the initial thing rather than trying to recreate any of it... Unless I am mistaken, they already has a fair start on a lot of these items from Fast related work that just need transported over?

I see this convo, and am going to try and get some ideas up here somewhere based on our spec soon. I think getting something up from what we've done will give folks the chance to kick it and improve, iterate, etc. Things have been a bit crazy, but I've cancelled a couple days worth of meetings tomorrow and over the next week. :)

[matthewp]

@bkardell @chrisdholt You are both speaking about something without saying specifically what the it is. 😀 What is the thing that MS has that we should evaluate? A tabs implementation? A tabs spec? A brownie recipe? I'm on the edge of my seat to find out.

[bkardell]

@matthewp The 'it' is a document created actual initial information to fill in the skeleton. A lot of the answers (research links, primary use cases, etc) already exist over there in MS's work and don't have to be recollected or duplicated, they just need to be largely copied over to kick it off. Many of the 'parts' in tabs (not :part necessarily) are well defined by ARIA too, so much of this isn't in any way controversial. What will be harder is many of the actual other details beyond that (how many elements, what parts, what apis), but it's hard to talk about them until they are written down here and we have a filled in doc.

[gregwhitworth]

@matthewp it's here: https://github.com/microsoft/fast/blob/master/packages/web-components/fast-foundation/src/tabs/tabs.spec.md

If you want to do the PR for @chrisdholt to start there and transfer their learnings and open issues against them based on yours I think it'll help out.

[matthewp]

Happy to do it if it's ok with @chrisdholt, don't want to steal credit from anyone.

[chrisdholt]

Happy to do it if it's ok with @chrisdholt, don't want to steal credit from anyone.

@matthewp Feel free to kick it off; that will certainly accelerate things. Our goal with our specs is to have a starting point for our implementation, but we've also wanted to align them to the Open UI definition and "upstream" them. As alignment takes and consensus takes place here, we'll work to prioritize and update our implementations. Happy to have you kick this off. Please do let me know when it's up and that way I can keep an eye out and provide feedback or context, reasoning, etc for certain decisions.

[matthewp]

@gregwhitworth My PR is updated with the information from the FAST design tabs: #183

[summercms]

Something we have done in our cms, was adding lazyloading to tabs, which increased performance for all themes and plugins.

It would be kind of nice if that was rolled out to tabs in a standardized form.

Wasn't sure to add to this issue or open a separate issue found here: #238

[bkardell]

Just wanted to add that in the interest of working more quickly and collaboratively, a few of us have been collecting information in a google doc which we will clean up and reformat/move here as it gets somewhere - but also in the interest of not stepping on anyone else, I thought it would make sense to share this research we've been collecting and let anyone else add to or help move over, etc. You can find it at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c5aufvMkuGtFGCKc4fVmqPcBKqnB7alFYro1HB9TOU0/edit?usp=sharing

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any discussion on this issue for a while, so we're marking it as stale. If you choose to kick off the discussion again, we'll remove the 'stale' label.