CSS WG Blog – Backlog: Resolutions

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Backlog: Resolutions

By fantasai August 29, 2007 (Permalink)
Categories: general resolutions

As I mentioned before, the CSS Working Group has adopted a policy of posting an unattributed summary of the resolutions and rationale for each decision to www-style. Richard Ishida recently suggested I also post these to the weblog, so as a start, here’s a blacklog for the past few telecons.

Resolutions 2007-08-07

RESOLVED

The Markus Principle: In CSS3, if a behavior cannot be mandated due to practical constraints, we will at least define a preferred behavior
We will not add xml-stylesheet to the CSS Mobile Profile 1.0 to match the OMA profile as it is out-of-scope for CSS.
We agreed to publish new working drafts of CSS3 Box Module and CSS3 Advanced Layout.
We will set up a directory on www.w3.org for editor’s drafts, where the spec editor can publish unofficial working drafts in between official ones.

Other notes

New implementation report template for Selectors. Mozilla has submitted their report.
Dave Raggett has created a style sheet for an Editor’s Draft status.
Discussed two-page spreads: cases where an article is laid out over two pages horizontally, perhaps with an image or a heading that spans both pages. CSS3 Paged Media allows generating extra pages for horizontal overflow, but that doesn’t give very good control. This topic needs more brainstorming.

Resolutions 2007-08-14

RESOLVED

Future publications of CSS modules will conform to the names in the table at the top of the current work page with the addition of the word “Module”, e.g. “CSS Foo Module” or “CSS Foo Module Level 3” for modules that have predecessors in CSS1/2.

Other notes

We also discussed Media Queries this week, but as Håkon was absent, we did not adopt any formal resolutions.

Resolutions 2007-08-21

RESOLVED

CSS2.1 issues #2, #3, and #5 were resolved and should soon make their way to the errata list.

Other notes

Talked about Media Queries, but decided we want more information on use cases and also we need a better idea of how to deal with ratios and rounding since 4/3 devices might not be exactly 4/3 etc.
Talked about rotation, expect more on that from Steve Zilles.

Resolutions 2007-08-28

RESOLVED

CSS Validator should use no special profile by default: the default should be to include all features defined in a CR level draft.
Media Queries shall
- add aspect-ratio in addition to device-aspect-ratio, both with the same #/# syntax.
- add landscape and portrait as stand-alone keywords
- mark both aspect-ratio and device-aspect-ratio as at-risk for removal during the CR period
To handle non-square pixels in Media Queries, the fantasai’s wording proposal was accepted.
Media Queries shall not include any normative requirements on re-evaluating media queries in responses to changes in the environment, but shall include a note explaining that a UA is expected to re-evaluate and re-layout the page in response to viewport resizing.

Other notes

Discussed publishing new Grid Layout proposal.
Discussed splitting GCPM into more coherent modules. Håkon doesn’t expects many features there to move to other drafts or be dropped, but thinks there will still be some print-centric features that stay.
Discussed CSS Validator features, HTML upload capability was suggested.
Discussed topics for upcoming F2F (2 weeks from now).

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