Bert Bos,
CSS contactLast updated $Date: 2009/04/14 16:44:34 $ GMT
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W3C and the CSS Working Group publish information about the specifications under development in various ways. This page is the working group's weblog (blog). Other places to find information are the “current work” page, the www-style mailing list.
The CSS WG published the new Candidate Recommendation (CR) for CSS level 2 revision 1, with the firm intention that there won't be any more working drafts.
There is no doubt that we will still find (small) bugs in the specification, but given the type of errors we fixed recently, we have reason to believe that the spec is good enough for implementers and users alike. We want people to start implementing and using CSS 2.1 for real (and tell us about any remaining problems, of course).
Given that the test suite isn't complete yet and our information about implementations is therefore largely based on anecdotal evidence, we expect that it will be some time before we have enough tests and enough test reports to progress the specification to Recommendation. And even if we get more tests rapidly, we will leave the specification in Candidate Recommendation status for the rest of this year (2007).
(There is a mailing list dedicated to testing CSS: <public-css-testsuite@w3.org> If you're involved in testing, or want to be, please join that list.)
As usual, the preferred place for comments on CSS 2.1 is the
mailing list
<www-style@w3.org>, and if you send something, please,
prefix the Subject line with [CSS21].
We are in particular looking for input from implementers: if you write software for (some part of) CSS 2.1 and you run into problems, we want to hear about it.
The changes relative to the old CSS2 Recommendation are in appendix C and the last set of issues solved since the last working draft are in a separate document.
CSS is still growing and we expect to add new features, but further specifications will be in the form of smaller, partial specifications, called Modules. (Several already exist and more are coming.) Those modules will progressively replace CSS 2.1. But the way it looks now, that will be several years of work.
Anyway, I've treated my colleagues to champagne today, to celebrate CSS 2.1. I hope you enjoy the new spec, too.