Publish minutes of 2024-09-23 - 2024-09-27 TPAC meetings

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Last week, the WECG met at TPAC 2024 (#659). This PR contains the minutes of the meetings.

• During the meetings on Monday, 23 september 2024, we discussed or mentioned issues #77, #78, #284, #659, #274, #296 and PRs #678, #679, #569.
• During the meetings on Tuesday, 24 september 2024, we discussed or mentioned issues #702, #532, #369, #229, #636, #353, #673, #338, #619, #601, #517, #521, #680, #406, #693, #282, #252, #274, #689, #694, #646, #533, #534, #570, #507, #115, #12, #8, #1, #483, #688.
• During the meetings on Thursday, 26 september 2024, we discussed or mentioned issues #362, #698, #19, #647, #416, #501, #353, #703, #519, #687.
• During the meetings on Friday, 27 september 2024, we discussed or mentioned issues #683, #639, #698, #640, #615, #624, #658, #657, #645, #503, #653, #617.

For readability, the list of issue numbers along with their titles is included below.

List of covered topics, issue numbers + titles

Monday 23 september 2024

• Proposal: Provide a secure drop-in replacement for window.postMessage() #77
• Proposal: deprecate window.postMessage(message, '*') for use with extensions #78
• Main world User Script shared params #284
• WECG at TPAC 2024 #659
• Proposal: i18n.getLanguageDictionary #274
• i18n.getMessage() language fallback paths #296
• PR Proposal: dom.execute() #678
• PR Proposal: dom.createPort() #679
• PR Proposal: i18n-system-languages #569

Tuesday 24 september 2024

• Namespace for experimental APIs #702
• Determine the nuances of aliasing chrome and browser #532
• Inconsistency: declarativeNetRequest rules able to block background requests from other extensions #369
• Extension Icons for Light/Dark/Custom Theme #229
• Proposal: Decode regexFilter matches in Declarative Net Request as query parameters #636
• Support onEnabled event when the extension from disabled state to enabled state #353
• Use match_origin_as_fallback behavior by default in scripting.executeScript #673
• Inconsistency: runtime.onMessage Promise return #338
• Proposal: Add alias for tabs permission #619
• Proposal: StorageArea.getKeys() #601
• sidePanel API: lifecycle events #517
• sidePanel API: sidePanel.close() and sidePanel.toggle() #521
• Extensions API to query the current browser theme #680
• Inconsistency: Persistence of alarms in browser.alarms API #406
• Add API to switch focus from sidePanel to main document to enable accessibility features #693
• Proposal: declaring background scripts in a neutral way #282
• Introducing browser.i18n.getOSLanguage #252
• Proposal: i18n.getLanguageDictionary #274
• I hope browsers can provide an API to hide/show the bookmarks bar and pinned api #689
• [DNR] in contrast to webRequestBlocking, declarativeNetRequest rules are not applied if the request is redirected #694
• userScripts API: method to get matching ids for a URL #646
• Enhance browser.storage.local to allow storing binary data directly #533
• Inconsistency with indexedDB in browser extensions #534
• Inconsistency: dns.resolve() #570
• Support $schema in manifest.json #507
• Proposal: move browser specific settings to browser_specific_settings #115
• request: allow to retrieve a frameID from an <iframe> element #12
• executeScript API may inject scripts in an unexpected target at runtime #8
• What to do with the older CG?  #1
• Proposal: API to embed pages in WebExtension bypassing CSP #483
• dev_permissions / self_permissions key in manifest #688

Thursday 26 september 2024

• Proposal: Declarative Cosmetic Rules #362
• MessageFormat 2 support #698
• request: APIs and infrastructure to simplify cross-browser automated testing of extensions #19
• Shadow DOM problems for extensions #647
• Introduce runtime.waitUntil API to keep background service worker / event page active during a specific task #416
• Proposal: Toggleable event listeners  #501
• Support onEnabled event when the extension from disabled state to enabled state #353
• State in background scripts, synchronously available across restarts #703
• Proposal: Event.addListener should accept an interface. #519
• Proposal: Targeted Permissions #687

Friday 27 september 2024

• Feature request. More granular Extension's hotkeys scope #683
• i18n.getMessage() pluralization #639
• MessageFormat 2 support #698
• Proposal: Remove multiple bookmarks in bookmarks.remove() #640
• Support user styles through scripting.registerContentScripts via a code property #615
• Proposal: getLeafTarget() method  #624
• Proposal: API to allow incognito access #658
• [MV3] Clarify browser inconsistency for temporary host permissions granted on extension click #657
• Inconsistency: Commands API support for Cmd+Alt on Apple OSs #645
• Ability to detect browser variant / fork #503
• API for extensions to exclusion/deny list their content scripts #653
• manifest key to enable automatic injection of content scripts after installation/update #617