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Minutes and Resolutions Cupertino F2F Wednesday 2010-03-31

CSSOM

• Discussed integrating CSSOM with other specs: both defining APIs and using consistent terminology. Anne actioned to write a list of inconsistent and missing terms.
• Terms “property value” and “component value” suggested to distinguish the different uses of “value” in the specs. (Both can be shortened to “value” where non-ambiguous, preserving current spec text in most places.)
• Discussed various ideas for making the CSS Values API more user-friendly.
• Set up a wiki page to track CSSOM numbered constants, to help us avoid conflicts in the specs.
• Discussed CSS editor requirements for CSSOM APIs
• Resolved: Alex and Daniel will start a CSS Editing Task Force for discussing issues relevant to CSS editors and defining their requirements for an object model.

Miscellaneous

• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 156, use “Once the font family’s weights are mapped onto the CSS scale, missing weights are selected as follows:” as the introductory sentence, then add bulleted list from John Daggett’s email since CSS2.1’s wording misses a few cases.
• Reviewed open issues on CSS3 Color so that dbaron can close them.
• Some discussion on animating gradients
• Resolved: Rename image-fit and image-position to object-fit and object-position since SVGWG considers the former ill-suited to their use.
• Tab Atkins ran a long discussion on CSS layout, some specific use cases, and the relationships between template layout and tables, and between flexbox and tables.
• dbaron proposes calculating available height similar to available width, which would allow percentage heights to work even when the parent has auto height. Since this would be backwards-incompatible, it seems likely this will be used for the fill keyword instead.
• env() date values changed to local-date, local-time, and local-date-time since they are the system date/time formatted according to the system locale.
• border-clip property moved from GCPM to CSS4 Backgrounds and Borders

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