IRC log of css on 2011-10-26

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15:40:41 [glazou]
Zakim, this will be Style
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ok, glazou; I see Style_CSS FP()12:00PM scheduled to start in 20 minutes
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RRSAgent, make logs public
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Style_CSS FP()12:00PM has now started
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+??P9
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Zakim, I am ??P9
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+florian; got it
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+??P20
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Zakim, ??P20 is me
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+glazou; got it
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+plinss
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+ +34.93.192.aaaa
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+stearns
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Zakim, aaaa is antonp
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+antonp; got it
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+ +1.408.543.aabb
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+hober
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+[IPcaller]
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Zakim, aabb is ericmueller
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+ericmueller; got it
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+dbaron
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+[Microsoft]
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+smfr
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+??P56
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+bradk
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+Bert
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zakim, ??p56 is me
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+kojiishi; got it
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+tabatkins_
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+fantasai
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ScribeNick: fantasai
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glazou: Extra items?
16:06:49 [TabAtkins_]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-css-wg/2011OctDec/0047.html
16:07:01 [fantasai]
TabAtkins: Would like quick yay/nay on inactive text notice
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+[Microsoft.a]
16:07:37 [fantasai]
Topic: Note for obsolescence of old WDs
16:08:11 [dbaron]
In addition to the use of "should" and "must", I think you should change "CSSWG" to "CSS Working Group"
16:08:57 [fantasai]
This specification is not being actively maintained, and must not be
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used as a guide for implementations. It may be revived in the future,
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but for now should be considered obsolete.
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If you have questions or comments on this specification, please send
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an email to the CSSWG's mailing list at www-style@w3.org.
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Bert: Tab can add to the editors' drafts, but what about published drafts?
16:09:44 [glazou]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/
16:09:46 [fantasai]
Tab: Should republish WD as well, possibly add a sentence or two
16:09:54 [Zakim]
+SteveZ
16:10:02 [fantasai]
glazou: Link to www-style
16:10:34 [fantasai]
Bert: Do we have a list of all the obsolete drafts?
16:10:46 [fantasai]
Tab: I started a list in the thread, two emails asking for changes to the list
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Tab: Would go with that list amended
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http://wiki.csswg.org/spec
16:11:16 [sylvaing]
Zakim, [Microsoft] has sylvaing, Rossen
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Rossen was already listed in [Microsoft], sylvaing
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+sylvaing; got it
16:11:24 [fantasai]
fantasai suggests putting the list on the wiki
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Topic: TPAC
16:11:53 [fantasai]
glazou: Has everyone seen the details for the Sunday meeting at Adobe?
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http://wiki.csswg.org/planning/tpac-2011
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+[Microsoft.aa]
16:12:42 [arronei_]
zakim, microsoft has me
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+arronei_; got it
16:13:19 [fantasai]
vhardy: We're thinking of setting up dinner at 6:30pm in San Jose, that sound ok?
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glazou: Some people are vegetarian?
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TabAtkins: Given Vincent's vegetarian, I'm sure he's handled that.
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glazou: I will browse agenda items for TPAC tomorrow and try to schedule things
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Florian: There was on the W3C site a very long list of ppl who would like to observe
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glazou: I got some requests from Adobe for observers from Adobe
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glazou: I also got some requests for other observers. I gave them rules we gave the Japanese observers at Mozilla. We usually accept all observers, as long as there is space.
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Florian: The list on w3c site was O(tens)
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glazou: I notice a lot of ppl arriving Friday, could make dinner plans for Friday night
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over email
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+ +1.408.536.aacc
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-SteveZ
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glazou: anything else about TPAC?
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+bradk.a
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vhardy: How are we arranging carpool?
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-bradk
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fantasai: I'm just going to assign people to cars later this week
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Topic: CSS3 Values and Units
16:17:48 [Bert]
(We have 35 people signed for the meeting up as *member*, assuming they all clicked the right button, we'll not have much room for the 32 observers...)
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http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/products/8
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Bert: do you have a direct link for that?
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oh sorry
16:18:49 [glazou]
wanted the list of observers
16:18:57 [Bert]
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/35125/TPAC2011/registrants
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http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/77
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ISSUE 77
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ISSUE-77: Cap-height unit proposal from dbaron http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2008Nov/0552.html
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ISSUE-77 Cap-height unit proposal notes added
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-[Microsoft]
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zakim, microsoft has johnjan
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sorry, JohnJansen, I do not recognize a party named 'microsoft'
16:19:52 [JohnJansen]
zakim, microsoft has johnjansen
16:19:52 [Zakim]
sorry, JohnJansen, I do not recognize a party named 'microsoft'
16:20:03 [fantasai]
fantasai: Question is add or don't add; should be similar to ex-height to define
16:20:03 [Rossen]
How is this going to impact the line height itelf?
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(sorry my phone connection died)
16:20:13 [glazou]
ACTION glazou: send an email to people who requested observer status
16:20:14 [trackbot]
Created ACTION-373 - Send an email to people who requested observer status [on Daniel Glazman - due 2011-11-02].
16:20:39 [fantasai]
Florian: What about Japanese text?
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+[Microsoft]
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dbaron: The use case is fitting something on the baseline to be the size of the letters
16:21:01 [JohnJansen]
zakim, microsoft has johnjansen
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+johnjansen; got it
16:21:14 [fantasai]
sylvaing: what kind of use case?
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+[Microsoft.aaa]
16:21:34 [fantasai]
szilles: introducing new glyphs, e.g. for math
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Florian: Not sure introducing one unit will be enough to solve the problem
16:22:15 [fantasai]
TabAtkins: For Japanese, em-height should do it. For lowercase letters, ex-height will do it
16:22:52 [fantasai]
sylvaing: Is this common? Do people like Brad have to do this often and have to hack it?
16:23:10 [fantasai]
TabAtkins: If I'm putting a sparkline inline with the text, you don't want it to be bigger than the text.
16:23:23 [fantasai]
fantasai: Wouldn't that be em-height?
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TabAtkins: Not if you want it baseline-aligned
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sylvaing: Is it a height issue or baseline issue?
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fantasai: The height you choose depends on the baseline you choose
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TabAtkins: Right now, if you want something to extend from top to bottom of the line, you set vertical-align to bottom and give it 1em height
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TabAtkins: You can make it ex-height and baseline-aligned to fit within the lowercase area
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TabAtkins: But you can't do baseline to top because we don't have this case
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16:26:10 [fantasai]
Florian: If we can solve all languages with one or two units, then it's good, but if it's many new units for all scripts, then maybe that doesn't work so well
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and we should use a different solution
16:26:47 [fantasai]
szilles: The ratio of ascender to descender can vary between fonts. So cap-height will be different for different fonts.
16:27:18 [stearns]
there are a lot of font metrics we could expose - we may want to defer doing this until we have the time/interest in exposing it all
16:27:21 [fantasai]
Florian: i think the idea is good if it extends to other scripts
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sylvaing: And if the fonts support this data
16:28:57 [fantasai]
some discussion of international considerations: ideographic, indic, vertical-flow, thai
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fantasai: So the plan is, afaict, to defer this to the next level
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szilles: I'll ask font guys about metrics for things like sparklines
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RESOLVED: Deferred to level 4
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TabAtkins: next issue is required ranges for CSS
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TabAtkins: Implementations must go at least up to this number; may go beyond
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szilles: Didn't we resolve on this?
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fantasai: We resolved to have this requirement, but not what it is
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16:32:29 [fantasai]
Florian: Let's assign action items to browser vendors to investigate
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TabAtkins: I've never heard anyone complain about overflow, so whatever we're doing is fine.
16:32:50 [fantasai]
s/doing/doing now/
16:33:06 [fantasai]
arronei: I have most of the information/testcases for this
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arronei: new properties would be tricky if they're different
16:33:21 [Bert]
(Range? Or precision?)
16:33:41 [fantasai]
fantasai: Can you make a proposal for what to put in Values and Units?
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arronei: I can collect the data
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Bert: I wonder if this is 2 different things. Range - do we accept 10km? But also precision.
16:34:17 [fantasai]
Do we handle 1 part in 1000
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ACTION arronei: collect data and make a proposal
16:34:58 [trackbot]
Sorry, couldn't find user - arronei
16:35:20 [glazou]
ACTION arronei_: collect data and make a proposal
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Sorry, couldn't find user - arronei_
16:35:33 [glazou]
arronei_: zakim does not know you today
16:35:43 [fantasai]
TabAtkins: I know Opera goes under 2^31 on some things
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16:36:06 [fantasai]
?: If something like this goes into the spec, it should be on the lower bounds so that we don't have to go fix anything depending on the type
16:36:22 [glazou]
Zakim, who is here?
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Florian: Why are we doing this?
16:36:23 [Zakim]
On the phone I see florian, glazou, plinss, antonp, stearns, ericmueller, hober, [IPcaller], dbaron, smfr, kojiishi, Bert, tabatkins_, fantasai, [Microsoft.a], [Microsoft.aa],
16:36:27 [Zakim]
... +1.408.536.aacc, bradk.a, [Microsoft], [Microsoft.aaa]
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[Microsoft] has johnjansen
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On IRC I see dsinger, jarek_, JohnJansen, szilles, miketaylr, sylvaing, TabAtkins_, Rossen, smfr, bradk, vhardy, antonp, oyvind, dbaron, RRSAgent, Zakim, glazou, CSSWG_LogBot,
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TabAtkins: For the test suites, we need to know what's a valid range to test
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... florian, kojiishi, myakura, florianr, lhnz, arronei_, krijnh, stearns, karl, TabAtkins, Hixie, pjrm, Bert, shepazu, davve, hober, gsnedders, plinss, fantasai, ed, trackbot
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TabAtkins: Right now we could know implementations support up to .. 8 but nothing beyond that.
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TabAtkins: It's primarily a quality-of-implementation issue, but want some minimum to meet or exceed
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16:38:00 [dbaron]
Florian: It's not intended to be an exercise where we have to change the implementations, right?
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http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/186
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TabAtkins: proposal to move CSSOM value serialization from CSSOM to CSS3 Values
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dbaron: That's moving them from a less stable spec to a more stable spec
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dbaron: I'd like to review them carefully... may not have gotten a lot of atttention yet.
16:40:14 [fantasai]
fantasai: Question here is, do we even want to move them
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glazou: Seems like a Pandora's box
16:41:18 [fantasai]
glazou: Would want to add serialization to all the other CSS constructs
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glazou: Also, might be useful to implementers to have it all in one place
16:41:58 [fantasai]
fantasai: Could be a separate, parallel module, e.g. CSSOM Values and Units
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sylvaing: or just have Serialization be its own thing
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sylvaing: I think if you want to move Values and Units forward, doesn't seem like a good idea.
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sylvaing: I think having a single core Serialization spec would be a good idea
16:43:15 [fantasai]
glazou: I'd like time to investigate that.
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glazou: I think we should leave it in CSSOM spec for now, and decide later when we know better what needs to be split out and dispatch to the various modules.
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glazou: It's a lot of work.
16:44:14 [fantasai]
fantasai: So close this issue no change?
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glazou: That's my recommendation.
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RESOLVED: Closed no change
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http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/190
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Removing or renaming 'vm' unit
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ROFL
16:45:52 [fantasai]
sylvaing: There is one implementation, but at this point no clue on how ...
16:46:22 [fantasai]
fantasai: I'm strongly in favor of renaming, b/c I think it's vague and ambiguous and confusing.
16:46:48 [fantasai]
Florian: The objection was based on most units being 2 letters
16:47:32 [fantasai]
TabAtkins: We already have 3-letter units, so ehh
16:47:47 [fantasai]
arronei: Have an implementation, but not a strong objection.
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RESOLVED: Rename 'vm' as 'vmin'.
16:48:27 [fantasai]
Florian: Should we keep it at-risk?
16:48:40 [fantasai]
fantasai: Could do, but I doubt someone implementing 'vh' and 'vw' would skip it
16:50:00 [fantasai]
fantasai: We could keep it at-risk, but that won't really mean much.
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Florian: ppl are confused about whether it's 1/100th or just 1x
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-smfr
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+smfr
16:52:37 [fantasai]
fantasai: I think part of the problem is the spec was not very clear in tying these to the idea of percentages, which make the 1/100th seem less arbitrary.
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fantasai: Also, since IE has an implementation; chances are vh and vw are more used than vm, also this would be an interpretation difference; vm -> vmin would trigger a parse error
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fantasai: So I'm leaning towards not changing it
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RESOLVED: vh/vw/vm stay as percentages, clarify spec
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http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/192
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Move "Stages of Value Computation" spec to CSS3 Cascade
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-fantasai
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glazou: what means "mostly" in 2.1?
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glazou: what's missing?
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fantasai: Only examples afaict
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+fantasai
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glazou: I'm ok to move it if CSS3 Cascade is not marked as obsolete
16:58:27 [fantasai]
fantasai: Ok, I'm willing to work with that conditional. Does anyone else have an opinion?
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dbaron: If someone starts fixing them up, shouldn't be marked obsolete
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szilles: mark it unmaintained, not obsolete
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Florian: Would need the spec to have an editor
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TabAtkins: Doesn't need one if it's identical to 2.1
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fantasai: So if we update CSS3 Cascade and sync it to 2.1 and post a WD, and then leave it there without taking to LC because there's nothing new or useful in it, is that ok?
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florian: Why not move it along the rec track?
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TabAtkins: Editors' time
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glazou: And test suite
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-ericmueller
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-[Microsoft]
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-[IPcaller]
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-[Microsoft.a]
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-dbaron
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-[Microsoft.aa]
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-glazou
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-hober
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-tabatkins_
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-[Microsoft.aaa]
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-stearns
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-florian
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-smfr
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Bert: why do you think I am flying on friday :-) before the strike...
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- +1.408.536.aacc
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-fantasai
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-antonp
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-plinss
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-Bert
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-bradk.a
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Style_CSS FP()12:00PM has ended
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RESOLVED: Move this section to CSS3 Cascade, update CSS3 Cascade and sync to 2.1 so that it's unmaintained but not obsolete, and when someone has a reason to move it forward along the rec track (i.e. someething to put in it that's not already in 2.1) then they can move it forward from there.
17:02:21 [Zakim]
Attendees were florian, glazou, plinss, +34.93.192.aaaa, stearns, antonp, +1.408.543.aabb, hober, [IPcaller], ericmueller, dbaron, smfr, Rossen, bradk, Bert, kojiishi, tabatkins_,
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... fantasai, SteveZ, sylvaing, arronei_, +1.408.536.aacc, johnjansen, [Microsoft]
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note +1.408.536.aacc was SteveZ
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