CSS WG Blog – Minutes New York F2F 2015-05-19 Part II: text-decoration-skip, Box Percent Sizing, font-display-loading Property

Minutes New York F2F 2015-05-19 Part II: text-decoration-skip, Box Percent Sizing, font-display-loading Property

By Dael Jackson June 22, 2015 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Resolved: Add leading-spaces/trailing-spaces to text-decoration-skip in L4. Change default behavior to skip leading/trailing spaces. Add UA rule that ins and del don’t skip anything. Add note from L3 to L4 indicating impending changes.

There was ample discussion about possible solutions to the confusion around box percent sizing. The potential solutions were:
1. global switch box-percent-sizing
2. switch as keyword on some properties
3. ip + bp, usable in some places
4. Nothing, settle on block
5. Nothing, settle on symmetry
The discussion was then split into a decision between options 4 and 5 and a separate decision on if there should be a switch at all (1, 2, and 3).
Resolved: Flexbox top/bottom margins and padding resolve against height.
Resolved: No switch for now.

jdaggett brought his proposal for a new property to give authors controls over font-loading that takes four keywords. It is font-loading-display: auto | fallback | blank-fallback | blank
There was a lot of concern about creating user confusion with a delayed font load causing text to flash once the font is loaded.
The potential to have text re-layout with a new font while a user was reading if they happened to click away briefly and therefore causing the user to lose their place also caused concern.
Ultimately, the meeting ran out of time and discussion will be continued on Wednesday.

Last updated 2015-06-22 01:01:11