CSS WG Blog – Minutes New York F2F 2015-05-20 Part I: CSS UI 3, Publication of Specs that Use Their Own Properties as Examples, CSS UI 4, Future Meetings

Minutes New York F2F 2015-05-20 Part I: CSS UI 3, Publication of Specs that Use Their Own Properties as Examples, CSS UI 4, Future Meetings

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

Resolved: ping the other WGs; unless there’s problematic feedback, go to CR for CSS UI Level 3 in 4 weeks
Resolved: Drop box-sizing:padding-box for lack of use cases.

Resolved: The CSSWG produces drafts that often use new CSS features for live examples, and thus such CSS Validator errors MUST NOT block publishing of such drafts.

Resolved: Keep the name ‘text’ in user-select
Resolved: Selection stops at the boundary of the user-select:none element, when dragging from outside to inside.
Florian will come up with a proposed resolution for the working group’s approval for user-select:none being included or not when selecting across.
Resolved: Keep spec-text for user-select:element as is, unless we uncover platform differences.
With regard to caret styling, leaverou brought her proposal to use a pseudo-element in place of caret-specific properties.
- The main problems with the current caret-blink-time proposal are:
  - only two values (auto and 0) appear to be useful
  - setting to 0 is required to set a custom animation
  - the UA stylesheet cannot use an animation due to the way standard animations cascade
- However, it was pointed out that regular CSS properties cannot express the caret color or shape, and that most other properties can’t apply because the caret is OS-generated, so special properties are needed anyway.
- It was proposed to instead replace the caret-blink-time property with a caret-animation property, which accepts keywords for the common cases (e.g. ‘auto’ or ‘blink’ for OS-default blinking) and also accepts a CSS animation name. CSS animation syntax could then be used to control ‘caret-color’ for create custom animations.
- Florian will explore these ideas further.

Everyone was reminded to book now for August and book soon for October.
The current proposal is to do Sydney in winter 2016 with Houdini 30/31-Jan, CSS WG 1/3-Feb, SVG 4/5-Feb.
The west coast of the US was discussed for both May and August 2016, but dates are waiting on locations and dates for AC meetings as well as other May meetings.

Last updated 2015-06-22 20:25:51