The web’s traditional position calculation mechanisms rely on explicit queries of DOM state that are known to cause (expensive) style recalculation and layout and, frequently, are a source of significant performance overhead due to continuous polling for this information.
A body of common practice has evolved that relies on these behaviors, however, including (but not limited to):
Building custom pre- and deferred-loading of DOM and data.
Implementing data-bound high-performance scrolling lists which load and render subsets of data sets. These lists are a central mobile interaction idiom.
Calculating element visibility. In particular, ad networks now require reporting of ad "visibility" for monetizing impressions. This has led to many sites abusing scroll handlers (causing jank on scroll), synchronous layout invoking readbacks (causing unnecessary critical work in rAF loops), and resorting to exotic plugin-based solutions for computing "true" element visibility (with all the associated overhead of the plugin architecture).
These use-cases have several common properties:
They can be represented as passive "queries" about the state of individual elements with respect to some other element (or the global viewport).
They do not impose hard latency requirements; that is to say, the information can be delivered asynchronously (e.g. from another thread) without penalty.
They are poorly supported by nearly all combinations of existing web platform features, requiring extraordinary developer effort despite their widespread use.
A notable non-goal is pixel-accurate information about what was actually displayed (which can be quite difficult to obtain efficiently in certain browser architectures in the face of filters, webgl, and other features). In all of these scenarios the information is useful even when delivered at a slight delay and without perfect compositing-result data.
The Intersection Observer API addresses the above issues by giving developers a new method to asynchronously query the position of an element with respect to other elements or the global viewport. The asynchronous delivery eliminates the need for costly DOM and style queries, continuous polling, and use of custom plugins. By removing the need for these methods it allows applications to significantly reduce their CPU, GPU and energy costs.
var observer = new IntersectionObserver(changes => { for (const change of changes) { console.log(change.time); // Timestamp when the change occurred console.log(change.rootBounds); // Unclipped area of root console.log(change.boundingClientRect); // target.getBoundingClientRect() console.log(change.intersectionRect); // boundingClientRect, clipped by its containing block ancestors, and intersected with rootBounds console.log(change.intersectionRatio); // Ratio of intersectionRect area to boundingClientRect area console.log(change.target); // the Element target } }, {}); // Watch for intersection events on a specific target Element. observer.observe(target); // Stop watching for intersection events on a specific target Element. observer.unobserve(target); // Stop observing threshold events on all target elements. observer.disconnect();2. Intersection Observer
The Intersection Observer API enables developers to understand the visibility and position of target DOM elements relative to an intersection root.
2.1. The IntersectionObserverCallbackcallbackIntersectionObserverCallback
= undefined (sequence<IntersectionObserverEntry>entries
, IntersectionObserverobserver
);
This callback will be invoked when there are changes to a target’s intersection with the intersection root, as per the processing model.
2.2. The IntersectionObserver interfaceThe IntersectionObserver
interface can be used to observe changes in the intersection of an intersection root and one or more target Element
s.
The intersection root for an IntersectionObserver
is the value of its root
attribute if the attribute is non-null
; otherwise, it is the top-level browsing context’s document
node, referred to as the implicit root.
An IntersectionObserver
with a non-null
root
is referred to as an explicit root observer, and it can observe any target Element
that is a descendant of the root
in the containing block chain. An IntersectionObserver
with a null
root
is referred to as an implicit root observer. Valid targets for an implicit root observer include any Element
in the top-level browsing context, as well as any Element
in any nested browsing context which is in the list of the descendant browsing contexts of the top-level browsing context.
When dealing with implicit root observers, the API makes a distinction between a target whose relevant settings object’s origin is same origin-domain with the top-level origin, referred to as a same-origin-domain target; as opposed to a cross-origin-domain target. Any target of an explicit root observer is also a same-origin-domain target, since the target must be in the same document as the intersection root.
Note: In MutationObserver
, the MutationObserverInit
options are passed to observe()
while in IntersectionObserver
they are passed to the constructor. This is because for MutationObserver, each Node
being observed could have a different set of attributes to filter for. For IntersectionObserver
, developers may choose to use a single observer to track multiple targets using the same set of options; or they may use a different observer for each tracked target. rootMargin
or threshold
values for each target seems to introduce more complexity without solving additional use-cases. Per-observe()
options could be provided in the future if the need arises.
[Exposed=Window] interfaceIntersectionObserver
{constructor
(IntersectionObserverCallbackcallback
, optional IntersectionObserverInitoptions
= {}); readonly attribute (Element or Document)? root; readonly attribute DOMString rootMargin; readonly attribute DOMString scrollMargin; readonly attribute FrozenArray<double> thresholds; readonly attribute long delay; readonly attribute boolean trackVisibility; undefined observe(Elementtarget
); undefined unobserve(Elementtarget
); undefined disconnect(); sequence<IntersectionObserverEntry> takeRecords(); };
root
, of type (Element or Document)
, readonly, nullable
The root
provided to the IntersectionObserver
constructor, or null
if none was provided.
rootMargin
, of type DOMString, readonly
Offsets applied to the root intersection rectangle, effectively growing or shrinking the box that is used to calculate intersections. These offsets are only applied when handling same-origin-domain targets; for cross-origin-domain targets they are ignored.
On getting, return the result of serializing the elements of [[rootMargin]]
space-separated, where pixel lengths serialize as the numeric value followed by "px", and percentages serialize as the numeric value followed by "%". Note that this is not guaranteed to be identical to the options.rootMargin
passed to the IntersectionObserver
constructor. If no rootMargin
was passed to the IntersectionObserver
constructor, the value of this attribute is "0px 0px 0px 0px".
scrollMargin
, of type DOMString, readonly
Offsets are applied to scrollports on the path from intersection root to target, effectively growing or shrinking the clip rects used to calculate intersections.
On getting, return the result of serializing the elements of [[scrollMargin]]
space-separated, where pixel lengths serialize as the numeric value followed by "px", and percentages serialize as the numeric value followed by "%". Note that this is not guaranteed to be identical to the options.scrollMargin
passed to the IntersectionObserver
constructor. If no scrollMargin
was passed to the IntersectionObserver
constructor, the value of this attribute is "0px 0px 0px 0px".
thresholds
, of type FrozenArray<double>, readonly
A list of thresholds, sorted in increasing numeric order, where each threshold is a ratio of intersection area to bounding box area of an observed target. Notifications for a target are generated when any of the thresholds are crossed for that target. If no options.threshold
was provided to the IntersectionObserver
constructor, or the sequence is empty, the value of this attribute will be [0].
delay
, of type long, readonly
A number indicating the minimum delay in milliseconds between notifications from this observer for a given target.
trackVisibility
, of type boolean, readonly
A boolean indicating whether this IntersectionObserver
will track changes in a target’s visibility.
An Element
is defined as having a content clip if its computed style has overflow properties that cause its content to be clipped to the element’s padding edge.
The root intersection rectangle for an IntersectionObserver
is the rectangle we’ll use to check against the targets.
IntersectionObserver
is an implicit root observer,
document
, according to the following rule for document
.
document
,
document
's viewport (note that this processing step can only be reached if the document
is fully active).
When calculating the root intersection rectangle for a same-origin-domain target, the rectangle is then expanded according to the offsets in the IntersectionObserver
’s [[rootMargin]]
slot in a manner similar to CSS’s margin property, with the four values indicating the amount the top, right, bottom, and left edges, respectively, are offset by, with positive lengths indicating an outward offset. Percentages are resolved relative to the width of the undilated rectangle.
Note: rootMargin
only applies to the intersection root itself. If a target Element
is clipped by an ancestor other than the intersection root, that clipping is unaffected by rootMargin
.
When calculating a scrollport intersection rectangle for a same-origin-domain target, the rectangle is expanded according to the offsets in the IntersectionObserver
’s [[scrollMargin]]
slot in a manner similar to CSS’s margin property, with the four values indicating the amount the top, right, bottom, and left edges, respectively, are offset by, with positive lengths indicating an outward offset. Percentages are resolved relative to the width of the undilated rectangle.
These offsets are only applied when handling same-origin-domain targets; for cross-origin-domain targets they are ignored.
Note: scrollMargin
affects the clipping of target by all scrollable ancestors up to and including the intersection root. Both the scrollMargin
and the rootMargin
are applied to a scrollable intersection root’s rectangle.
Note: Root intersection rectangle and scrollport intersection rectangles are not affected by pinch zoom and will report the unadjusted viewport, consistent with the intent of pinch zooming (to act like a magnifying glass and NOT change layout.)
To parse a margin (root or scroll) from an input string marginString, returning either a list of 4 pixel lengths or percentages, or failure:
Parse a list of component values marginString, storing the result as tokens.
Remove all whitespace tokens from tokens.
If the length of tokens is greater than 4, return failure.
If there are zero elements in tokens, set tokens to ["0px"].
Replace each token in tokens:
If token is an absolute length dimension token, replace it with a an equivalent pixel length.
If token is a <percentage> token, replace it with an equivalent percentage.
Otherwise, return failure.
If there is one element in tokens, append three duplicates of that element to tokens. Otherwise, if there are two elements are tokens, append a duplicate of each element to tokens. Otherwise, if there are three elements in tokens, append a duplicate of the second element to tokens.
Return tokens.
[Exposed=Window] interfaceIntersectionObserverEntry
{constructor
(IntersectionObserverEntryInitintersectionObserverEntryInit
); readonly attribute DOMHighResTimeStamp time; readonly attribute DOMRectReadOnly? rootBounds; readonly attribute DOMRectReadOnly boundingClientRect; readonly attribute DOMRectReadOnly intersectionRect; readonly attribute boolean isIntersecting; readonly attribute boolean isVisible; readonly attribute double intersectionRatio; readonly attribute Element target; }; dictionaryIntersectionObserverEntryInit
{ required DOMHighResTimeStamptime
; required DOMRectInit?rootBounds
; required DOMRectInitboundingClientRect
; required DOMRectInitintersectionRect
; required booleanisIntersecting
; required booleanisVisible
; required doubleintersectionRatio
; required Elementtarget
; };
boundingClientRect
, of type DOMRectReadOnly, readonly
A DOMRectReadOnly
obtained by getting the bounding box for target
.
intersectionRect
, of type DOMRectReadOnly, readonly
boundingClientRect
, intersected by each of target
's ancestors' clip rects (up to but not including root
), intersected with the root intersection rectangle. This value represents the portion of target
that intersects with the root intersection rectangle.
isIntersecting
, of type boolean, readonly
True if the target
intersects with the root
; false otherwise. This flag makes it possible to distinguish between an IntersectionObserverEntry
signalling the transition from intersecting to not-intersecting; and an IntersectionObserverEntry
signalling a transition from not-intersecting to intersecting with a zero-area intersection rect (as will happen with edge-adjacent intersections, or when the boundingClientRect
has zero area).
isVisible
, of type boolean, readonly
Contains the result of running the visibility algorithm on target
.
intersectionRatio
, of type double, readonly
If the boundingClientRect
has non-zero area, this will be the ratio of intersectionRect
area to boundingClientRect
area. Otherwise, this will be 1 if the isIntersecting
is true, and 0 if not.
rootBounds
, of type DOMRectReadOnly, readonly, nullable
For a same-origin-domain target, this will be the root intersection rectangle. Otherwise, this will be null
. Note that if the target is in a different browsing context than the intersection root, this will be in a different coordinate system than boundingClientRect
and intersectionRect
.
target
, of type Element, readonly
The Element
whose intersection with the intersection root changed.
time
, of type DOMHighResTimeStamp, readonly
The attribute must return a DOMHighResTimeStamp
that corresponds to the time the intersection was recorded, relative to the time origin of the global object associated with the IntersectionObserver instance that generated the notification.
dictionary IntersectionObserverInit
{
(Element or Document)? root = null;
DOMString rootMargin = "0px";
DOMString scrollMargin = "0px";
(double or sequence<double>) threshold = 0;
long delay = 0;
boolean trackVisibility = false;
};
root
, of type (Element or Document)
, nullable, defaulting to null
The root
to use for intersection. If not provided, use the implicit root.
rootMargin
, of type DOMString, defaulting to "0px"
Similar to the CSS margin property, this is a string of 1-4 components, each either an absolute length or a percentage.
"5px" // all margins set to 5px "5px 10px" // top & bottom = 5px, right & left = 10px "-10px 5px 8px" // top = -10px, right & left = 5px, bottom = 8px "-10px -5px 5px 8px" // top = -10px, right = -5px, bottom = 5px, left = 8px
scrollMargin
, of type DOMString, defaulting to "0px"
Similar to rootMargin
, this is a string of 1-4 components, each either an absolute length or a percentage.
See rootMargin
above for the example.
threshold
, of type (double or sequence<double>)
, defaulting to 0
List of threshold(s) at which to trigger callback. callback will be invoked when intersectionRect’s area changes from greater than or equal to any threshold to less than that threshold, and vice versa.
Threshold values must be in the range of [0, 1.0] and represent a percentage of the area of the rectangle produced by getting the bounding box for target.
Note: 0.0 is effectively "any non-zero number of pixels".
delay
, of type long, defaulting to 0
A number specifying the minimum delay in milliseconds between notifications from the observer for a given target.
trackVisibility
, of type boolean, defaulting to false
A boolean indicating whether the observer should track visibility. Note that tracking visibility is likely to be a more expensive operation than tracking intersections. It is recommended that this option be used only when necessary.
This section outlines the steps the user agent must take when implementing the Intersection Observer API.
3.1. Internal Slot Definitions 3.1.1. DocumentEach document
has an IntersectionObserverTaskQueued flag which is initialized to false.
Element
objects have an internal [[RegisteredIntersectionObservers]]
slot, which is initialized to an empty list. This list holds IntersectionObserverRegistration
records, which have:
an observer
property holding an IntersectionObserver
.
a previousThresholdIndex
property holding a number between -1 and the length of the observer’s thresholds
property (inclusive).
a previousIsIntersecting
property holding a boolean.
a lastUpdateTime
property holding a DOMHighResTimeStamp
value.
a previousIsVisible
property holding a boolean.
IntersectionObserver
objects have the following internal slots:
A [[QueuedEntries]]
slot initialized to an empty list.
A [[ObservationTargets]]
slot initialized to an empty list.
A [[callback]]
slot which is initialized by IntersectionObserver(callback, options)
.
A [[rootMargin]]
slot which is a list of four pixel lengths or percentages.
A [[scrollMargin]]
slot which is a list of four pixel lengths or percentages.
A [[thresholds]]
slot which is initialized by IntersectionObserver(callback, options)
.
A [[delay]]
slot which is initialized by IntersectionObserver(callback, options)
.
A [[trackVisibility]]
slot which is initialized by IntersectionObserver(callback, options)
.
To initialize a new IntersectionObserver, given an IntersectionObserverCallback
callback and an IntersectionObserverInit
dictionary options, run these steps:
Let this be a new IntersectionObserver
object
Set this’s internal [[callback]]
slot to callback.
Attempt to parse a margin from options.rootMargin
. If a list is returned, set this’s internal [[rootMargin]]
slot to that. Otherwise, throw a SyntaxError
exception.
Attempt to parse a margin from options.scrollMargin
. If a list is returned, set this’s internal [[scrollMargin]]
slot to that. Otherwise, throw a SyntaxError
exception.
Let thresholds be a list equal to options.threshold
.
If any value in thresholds is less than 0.0 or greater than 1.0, throw a RangeError
exception.
Sort thresholds in ascending order.
If thresholds is empty, append 0
to thresholds.
The thresholds
attribute getter will return this sorted thresholds list.
Let delay be the value of options.delay
.
If options.trackVisibility
is true and delay is less than 100
, set delay to 100
.
Set this’s internal [[delay]]
slot to options.delay
to delay.
Set this’s internal [[trackVisibility]]
slot to options.trackVisibility
.
Return this.
To observe a target Element, given an IntersectionObserver
observer and an Element
target, follow these steps:
If target is in observer’s internal [[ObservationTargets]]
slot, return.
Let intersectionObserverRegistration be an IntersectionObserverRegistration
record with an observer
property set to observer, a previousThresholdIndex
property set to -1
, a previousIsIntersecting
property set to false, and a previousIsVisible
property set to false.
Append intersectionObserverRegistration to target’s internal [[RegisteredIntersectionObservers]]
slot.
Add target to observer’s internal [[ObservationTargets]]
slot.
To unobserve a target Element, given an IntersectionObserver
observer and an Element
target, follow these steps:
Remove the IntersectionObserverRegistration
record whose observer
property is equal to this from target’s internal [[RegisteredIntersectionObservers]]
slot, if present.
Remove target from this’s internal [[ObservationTargets]]
slot, if present
The IntersectionObserver task source is a task source used for scheduling tasks to § 3.2.5 Notify Intersection Observers.
To queue an intersection observer task for a document
document, run these steps:
If document’s IntersectionObserverTaskQueued flag is set to true, return.
Set document’s IntersectionObserverTaskQueued flag to true.
Queue a task on the IntersectionObserver task source associated with the document
's event loop to notify intersection observers.
To notify intersection observers for a document
document, run these steps:
Set document’s IntersectionObserverTaskQueued flag to false.
Let notify list be a list of all IntersectionObserver
s whose root
is in the DOM tree of document.
For each IntersectionObserver
object observer in notify list, run these steps:
If observer’s internal [[QueuedEntries]]
slot is empty, continue.
Let queue be a copy of observer’s internal [[QueuedEntries]]
slot.
Clear observer’s internal [[QueuedEntries]]
slot.
Let callback be the value of observer’s internal [[callback]]
slot.
Invoke callback with queue as the first argument, observer as the second argument, and observer as the callback this value. If this throws an exception, report the exception.
To queue an IntersectionObserverEntry for an IntersectionObserver
observer, given a document
document; DOMHighResTimeStamp
time; DOMRect
s rootBounds, boundingClientRect, intersectionRect, and isIntersecting flag; and an Element
target; run these steps:
Construct an IntersectionObserverEntry
, passing in time, rootBounds, boundingClientRect, intersectionRect, isIntersecting, and target.
Append it to observer’s internal [[QueuedEntries]]
slot.
Queue an intersection observer task for document.
To compute the intersection between a target target and an intersection root root, run these steps:
Let intersectionRect be the result of getting the bounding box for target.
Let container be the containing block of target.
While container is not root:
If container is the document
of a nested browsing context, update intersectionRect by clipping to the viewport of the document
, and update container to be the browsing context container of container.
Map intersectionRect to the coordinate space of container.
If container is a scroll container, apply the IntersectionObserver
’s [[scrollMargin]]
to the container’s clip rect as described in apply scroll margin to a scrollport.
If container has a content clip or a css clip-path property, update intersectionRect by applying container’s clip.
If container is the root element of a browsing context, update container to be the browsing context’s document
; otherwise, update container to be the containing block of container.
Map intersectionRect to the coordinate space of root.
Update intersectionRect by intersecting it with the root intersection rectangle.
Map intersectionRect to the coordinate space of the viewport of the document
containing target.
Return intersectionRect.
To compute the visibility of a target, run these steps:
If the observer’s trackVisibility
attribute is false, return false.
If the target has an effective transformation matrix other than a 2D translation or proportional 2D upscaling, return false.
If the target, or any element in its containing block chain, has an effective opacity other than 100%, return false.
If the target, or any element in its containing block chain, has any filters applied, return false.
If the implementation cannot guarantee that the target is completely unoccluded by other page content, return false.
Note: Implementations should use the ink overflow rectangle of page content when determining whether a target is occluded. For blur effects, which have theoretically infinite extent, the ink overflow rectangle is defined by the finite-area approximation described for the blur filter function.
Return true.
Let matrix be the serialization of the identity transform function.
Let container be the target.
While container is not the intersection root:
Set t to container’s transformation matrix.
Set matrix to t post-multiplied by matrix.
If container is the root element of a nested browsing context, update container to be the browsing context container of container. Otherwise, update container to be the containing block of container.
Return matrix.
To run the update intersection observations steps for a Document document given a timestamp time, run these steps:
Let observer list be a list of all IntersectionObserver
s whose root
is in the DOM tree of document. For the top-level browsing context, this includes implicit root observers.
For each observer in observer list:
Let rootBounds be observer’s root intersection rectangle.
For each target in observer’s internal [[ObservationTargets]]
slot, processed in the same order that observe()
was called on each target:
Let registration be the IntersectionObserverRegistration
record in target’s internal [[RegisteredIntersectionObservers]]
slot whose observer
property is equal to observer.
If (time - registration.
, skip further processing for target.lastUpdateTime
< observer.delay
)
Set registration.lastUpdateTime
to time.
Let:
thresholdIndex be 0.
isIntersecting be false.
targetRect be a DOMRectReadOnly
with x, y, width, and height set to 0.
intersectionRect be a DOMRectReadOnly
with x, y, width, and height set to 0.
If the intersection root is not the implicit root, and target is not in the same document
as the intersection root, skip to step 11.
If the intersection root is an Element
, and target is not a descendant of the intersection root in the containing block chain, skip to step 11.
Set targetRect to the DOMRectReadOnly
obtained by getting the bounding box for target.
Let intersectionRect be the result of running the compute the intersection algorithm on target and observer’s intersection root.
Let targetArea be targetRect’s area.
Let intersectionArea be intersectionRect’s area.
Let isIntersecting be true if targetRect and rootBounds intersect or are edge-adjacent, even if the intersection has zero area (because rootBounds or targetRect have zero area).
If targetArea is non-zero, let intersectionRatio be intersectionArea divided by targetArea.
Otherwise, let intersectionRatio be 1
if isIntersecting is true, or 0
if isIntersecting is false.
Set thresholdIndex to the index of the first entry in observer.thresholds
whose value is greater than intersectionRatio, or the length of observer.thresholds
if intersectionRatio is greater than or equal to the last entry in observer.thresholds
.
Let isVisible be the result of running the visibility algorithm on target.
Let previousThresholdIndex be the registration’s previousThresholdIndex
property.
Let previousIsIntersecting be the registration’s previousIsIntersecting
property.
Let previousIsVisible be the registration’s previousIsVisible
property.
If thresholdIndex does not equal previousThresholdIndex, or if isIntersecting does not equal previousIsIntersecting, or if isVisible does not equal previousIsVisible, queue an IntersectionObserverEntry, passing in observer, time, rootBounds, targetRect, intersectionRect, isIntersecting, isVisible, and target.
Assign thresholdIndex to registration’s previousThresholdIndex
property.
Assign isIntersecting to registration’s previousIsIntersecting
property.
Assign isVisible to registration’s previousIsVisible
property.
An IntersectionObserver
will remain alive until both of these conditions hold:
An IntersectionObserver
will continue observing a target until either the observer’s unobserve()
method is called with the target as argument; or the observer’s disconnect()
is called.
An Intersection Observer processing step exists as a substep within the "Update the rendering" step, in the HTML Event Loops Processing Model.
3.4.2. Pending initial IntersectionObserver targets Adocument
is said to have pending initial IntersectionObserver targets if there is at least one IntersectionObserver
meeting these criteria:
root
is in the document (for the top-level browsing context, this includes implicit root observers).[[ObservationTargets]]
slot for which no IntersectionObserverEntry
has yet been queued.In the HTML Event Loops Processing Model, under the "Update the rendering" step, the "Unnecessary rendering" step should be modified to add an additional requirement for skipping the rendering update:
This section is non-normative.
There are no known accessibility considerations for the core IntersectionObserver specification (this document). There are, however, related specifications and proposals that leverage and refer to this spec, which might have their own accessibility considerations. In particular, specifications for HTML § 2.5.7 Lazy loading attributes and CSS Containment 2 § 4 Suppressing An Element’s Contents Entirely: the content-visibility property may have implications for HTML § 6.9 Find-in-page, HTML § 6.6.3 The tabindex attribute, and spatial navigation.
5. Privacy and SecurityThis section is non-normative.
The main privacy concerns associated with this API relate to the information it may provide to code running in the context of a cross-origin iframe (i.e., the cross-origin-domain target case). In particular:
There is no universal consensus on the privacy implications of revealing whether an iframe is within the global viewport.
There is a risk that the API may be used to probe for information about the geometry of the global viewport itself, which may be used to deduce the user’s hardware configuration. The motivation for disabling the effects of rootMargin
and scrollMargin
, and suppressing rootBounds
for cross-origin-domain targets is to prevent such probing.
It should be noted that prior to IntersectionObserver
, web developers used other API’s in very ingenious (and grotesque) ways to tease out the information available from IntersectionObserver
. As a purely practical matter, this API does not reveal any information that was not already available by other means.
Another consideration is that IntersectionObserver
uses DOMHighResTimeStamp
, which has privacy and security considerations of its own. It is however unlikely that IntersectionObserver
is vulnerable to timing-related exploits. Timestamps are generated at most once per rendering update (see § 3.4.1 HTML Processing Model: Event Loop), which is far too infrequent for the familiar kind of timing attack.
This section is non-normative.
There are no known issues concerning internationalization.
7. AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to all the contributors for their technical input and suggestions that led to improvements to this specification.
Conformance Document conventionsConformance requirements are expressed with a combination of descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology. The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL” in the normative parts of this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
All of the text of this specification is normative except sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. [RFC2119]
Examples in this specification are introduced with the words “for example” or are set apart from the normative text with class="example"
, like this:
This is an example of an informative example.
Informative notes begin with the word “Note” and are set apart from the normative text with class="note"
, like this:
Note, this is an informative note.
Conformant AlgorithmsRequirements phrased in the imperative as part of algorithms (such as "strip any leading space characters" or "return false and abort these steps") are to be interpreted with the meaning of the key word ("must", "should", "may", etc) used in introducing the algorithm.
Conformance requirements phrased as algorithms or specific steps can be implemented in any manner, so long as the end result is equivalent. In particular, the algorithms defined in this specification are intended to be easy to understand and are not intended to be performant. Implementers are encouraged to optimize.
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