CSS WG Blog Minutes Telecon 2020-12-09

Minutes Telecon 2020-12-09

• The group was in favor of having more long-form meetings since they’re now virtual. Rossen and astearns will propose specific days/times on the private list.
• Due to the change in patent policy, everyone will need to re-join the working group to accept the policy. Emails should go out shortly.
• The PR to change the applies to text was merged (Issue #5303: CSS Text, CSS Fonts, and CSS Text Decor). Any issues or missed specs should be raised as separate issues.
• Issue #5697 (Inconsistent phrasing around placement of @import rules) will be closed as editorial. A new issue will be opened for the naming of the stylesheet grammar construct.
• leaverou introduced her proposal for fixing the current limitation that custom element authors cannot use custom properties in the place of presentational attributes (Issue #5624: Higher level custom properties that control multiple declarations). There was a lot of interest in solving and some discussion around creating some syntactic sugar and using if() conditions to make it possible. Discussion will continue on the issue.
• Everyone agreed that quirks should not skip grid and flexbox items (Issue #5545: Avoid percentage height quirk in new layout models). There was concern about web compat in making the change, but the group will try for it and revert if there’s breakage.
• Resolved: dholbert to make a change to quirks spec to clarify behavior for flex and grid items and containers (Issue #5545)
• Several browser vendors will go back and check with their teams if there are any concerns requiring a higher number of minimum bits for storing colors in css data structure (Issue #5667: Minimum bit depth for serializing color() values)

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