CSS WG Blog

This is a page from the Cascading Style Sheets Working Group Blog. Some other places to find information are the “current work” page, the www-style mailing list, the Future of CSS syndicator, and the issue list on Github.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-07-28

By fantasai July 29, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Collecting agenda items for Oslo F2F at end of August. Will need to discuss WG recharter.
Resolved: Leave text-align case defined, position of bullet in presence of floats undefined for CSS2.1 Issue 86.
Resolved: Accept bz’s proposal as worded by fantasai for CSS2.1 Issue 110
Discussed CSS2.1 Issue 118, need definition of em-box or equivalent.
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 166.
Reviewed issue CSS2.1 Issue 170 (min/max-width/height on table cells).
Resolved: Add missing values from writing-mode in SVG to CSS.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-07-21

By fantasai July 21, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Resolved: Republish CSS Snapshot 2007 to include CSS Styling Attributes spec.
Resolved: Publish new Media Queries CR after updating note about media queries in HTML to point to HTML5.
Resolved: Change “A minimum of another six months of the CR period must elapse” to four weeks for Media Queries, since over six months have passed already.
Discussed CSS2.1 Issue 110 (abspos in table box construction).
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 138 with correction in reply.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-07-14

By fantasai July 15, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Resolved: Look into allowing justification combined with white-space values in the future, but go with Proposal A for CSS 2.1 Issue 53.
Reviewed CSS2.1 Issue 138, leaning towards making floats relpos with their containing block, not their parent.
Proposals for CSS2.1 issues 110, 158, and 166 assigned as required reading.
Resolved: Accept dbaron’s proposal for CSS2.1 Issue 174.
writing-mode sync with SVG specs deferred to September, when fantasai has time to work on it
Resolved: Add CSS Styling Attributes spec to 2007 Snapshot.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-07-07

By fantasai July 15, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Reviewed status of CSS2.1 test suite and issues
Discussed whether soft-wrapped lines in pre-wrap text should be justified when text-align: justify is specified.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-06-30

By fantasai July 15, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

CSS2.1 Test Suite Beta 1 publication this week. (Send feedback to public-css-testsuite@w3.org)
Resolved: Reduced CR period for next CSS2.1 CR. (Current set of changes probably needs a LCWD.)
Discussed status of CSS2.1 issues, including some discussion of anonymous box containing blocks and white space normalization.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-06-23

By fantasai June 23, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Reviewed CSS2.1 test suite status
Reviewed open CSS2.1 issues
Discussed whether preformatted text should be allowed to justify when soft-wrapped. (CSS2.1 Issue 53)
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 107 (top/left/bottom/right computed values)
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 145 (Handling forced line breaks and bidi)
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 149 (Definitions of px and physical units)
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 151 (Allow XML to use preshint level)
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 160 (Explain whether :first page is :left or :right)
Accepted in principle to change spec for CSS2.1 Issue 172, but need exact wording.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-06-16

By fantasai June 22, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

CSS2.1 Test Suite Alpha 3 published
Reviewed status of open CSS2.1 issues.
Resolved: Bert’s proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 71 (Parsing rules for @page changed to be forwards-compatible with css3-page; parsing rules for normal declaration blocks unchanged.)
Resolved: Bert’s proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 119
Resolved: CSS2.1 Issue 134 closed No Change. Testcases and implementation need updates.
Resolved: CSS2.1 Issue 165 closed No Change. Already have interop on current definition.
Issues 167, 170, and 171 deferred to next week.

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New CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3 Last Call for Comments

By fantasai June 15, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group has published a new Last Call Working Draft of CSS Backgrounds and Borders Level 3. Substantial changes from the previous Candidate Recommendation include a new content-box value for the background-clip property, a change to the background shorthand syntax for background-clip and background-origin, and the re-addition of the box-shadow property. Comments on these changes are welcome through 6 July 2010, see the status section for details.

Minutes and Resolutions 2010-06-09

By fantasai June 10, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Reviewed status of CSS2.1 test suite and issues.
Discussed vendor prefixes and allowing unprefixed implementations before CR.
Discussed vendor prefixes and what to do when one vendor wants to implement the other’s proprietary feature.
Resolved: Republish css3-background as LC to accept recent changes to background-clip and re-addition of box-shadow.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2010-06-02

By fantasai June 3, 2010 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Reviewed status of CSS2.1 test suite
Resolved: Publish new GCPM working draft.
Resolved: Accept dbaron’s proposal for CSS2.1 issue 26 with “(see above)” and s/specified/computed/ changes from Peter Moulder; open a new issue for the remaining points from Peter’s email.
Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 129, change the grammar to avoid backup. Exact changes TBD by Bert.
Resolved: Accept in principle to change the grammar for CSS 2.1 Issue 140 and note that we won’t use the additional capabilities (exact wording TBD by Bert).
Resolved: font-family names are ident+ or quoted strings (CSS2.1 Issue 114)