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Minutes Telecon 2013-05-15

By fantasai May 16, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

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Minutes Telecon 2013-05-08

By fantasai May 9, 2013 (Permalink)
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Selectors Level 4 Updated

By fantasai May 2, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The CSS Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Selectors Level 4. Selectors is a pattern-matching syntax for identifying sets of elements in a document, and is used e.g. for applying CSS declarations to elements in a document tree.

Additions include some new selectors: :blank for elements that are empty or contain only white space, and :placeholder-shown for inputs that are showing a placeholder. Review and improved naming suggestions are particularly welcome on these—and also on the drag and drop pseudos.

Another important change is lifting restrictions on :matches() and :not() to accept complex selectors, and the definition of two profiles, one for CSS matching and another for less performance-intensive uses like querySelector. We particularly encourage implementers to comment on whether this split is reasonable, or whether different things should be included/excluded.

The Working Draft includes a list of changes since the previous WD.

As always, please send feedback to the (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org with the spec code ([selectors]) and your comment topic in the subject line. (Alternatively, you can email one of the editors and ask them to forward your comment.)

Minutes Telecon 2013-05-01

By fantasai May 2, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

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Minutes Telecon 2013-04-24

By fantasai April 25, 2013 (Permalink)
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CSS Grid Layout Overhaul

By fantasai April 18, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The CSS Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of CSS Grid Layout. This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system optimized for user interface design.

This is a major update: not only has the draft generally been reorganized and much of the prose rewritten to fill in missing details, avoid repetition, improve precision and terminology, and ensure alignment with Flexbox, but it’s switched to a new positioning model. The old grid layout model uses properties to indicate the starting row/column and the item’s span. The new grid layout model positions each edge of the item to a grid line.

There are tons of issues marked in the draft, such as:

We’re totally looking for feedback, particularly on syntax issues, so please send comments to the (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org with the spec code ([css-grid-layout]) and your comment topic in the subject line. (Alternatively, you can email one of the editors and ask them to forward your comment.)

Comments have also been enabled on the cross-post over at CSS3.info. We strongly encourage feedback and suggestions for improvement from the design community!

CSS3 Values and Units Updated

By fantasai April 18, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The CSS Working Group has published an updated Candidate Recommendation of CSS Values and Units Level 3. This CSS3 module describes the common values and units that CSS properties accept and the syntax used for describing them in CSS property definitions.

This is publication mainly just incorporates some minor fixes and clarifications. It also defines the interaction of scrollbars and viewport units. Changes since the last publication are listed in the Changes section.

As always, please send feedback to the (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org with the spec code (>>[css3-values]<<) and your comment topic in the subject line. (Alternatively, you can email one of the editors and ask them to forward your comment.)

Minutes Telecon 2013-04-17

By fantasai April 18, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

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CSS Overflow Module Working Draft Published

By David Baron April 18, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The CSS Working Group has published a first public Working Draft of the CSS Overflow Module Level 3.

This module describes:

This draft is still relatively early in development, but the group welcomes feedback on all aspects of the draft.

As always, please send feedback to the (archived) public mailing list www-style@w3.org with the spec code ([css-overflow-3]) and your comment topic in the subject line.

Minutes Telecon 2013-04-10

By fantasai April 11, 2013 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

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