Sticky user activation across same-origin navigations

[mustaqahmed]

Specification title

Sticky user activation across same-origin navigations

Specification or proposal URL (if available)

whatwg/html#11454

Explainer URL (if available)

No response

Proposal author(s)

@mustaqahmed

MDN URL

No response

Caniuse.com URL

No response

Bugzilla URL

No response

Mozillians who can provide input

@smaug----

WebKit standards-position

WebKit/standards-positions#547

Other information

This feature preserves the sticky user activation state after a page navigates to another same-origin page. The lack of user activation in the post-navigation page prevents some use cases like showing virtual keyboards on auto-focus, and this has been a blocker for the developers who want to build MPAs over SPAs.

[smaug----]

We're positive on this, but need to review the spec PR still. The earlier variant wasn't dealing with BFCache.
(Positive standards-position does not mean the spec is ready to ship)