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if you're using the `interestfor` attribute anywhere, you should know that a bunch of googlers just vandalised your site it looks _atrocious_. leaving aside the merits of the accessibility discussion (github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...), am flabbergasted that it shipped in this state. unbelievably careless

Correction: this hasn't shipped. It's available behind a feature flag so that you can test things. So no, a bunch of Googlers did not vandalise your site … See this thread for details: bsky.app/profile/bram...

Also: we didn't initially plan this ::interest-button at all, but other browser vendors complained about interest invokers not working on touch devices (should they even?) and this is the compromise we settled on … and it's clear from testing that it's not working, so it's back to the drawing board.

Good question. Should they even? I don't think so. If I wanted a button with a popover that also happens to trigger on hover, I'd build that instead of reaching for interest invokers. Not all features work in every context, they never have, and that's fine. Web authors must take responsibility.