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 2009-05-13

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Discussed CSS2.1 Issue 117 (vertical alignment)
Briefly reviewed proposal for background shorthand syntax.
Discussed CSS2.1 issues raised by Andrey Mikhalev
Bert will address grammar issue (CSS2.1 Issue 124), see proposal.
Resolved: Accept Bert’s first proposal to fix CSS2.1 Issue 123 with addition of comma before second “or”.

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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-05-06

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Added SVG’s coordination message to June F2F agenda
Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 72
esolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 73
CSS2.1 Issue 117 (vertical alignment underdefined) Further discussion deferred to next week.
Assigned issues prep work to various members.

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Minutes and Resolutions 2009-04-29

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Resolved: Add three new column-breaking properties and shorthand to combine them with page-break properties per Melinda’s email item 2.
Discussed renaming of image-fit to content-fit. Concern that for CSS, this only appies to images while the name implies it applies to e.g. text content. No better suggestions. Agreed to ask for more suggestions.
Reviewed status of specs close to PR.

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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-04-15

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Discussed fantasai’s page counters proposal
Discussed ISSUE-28 (keyword to suppress center image in ‘border-image’)
Resolved: Accept dbaron’s proposal for CSS2.1 Issue 112
Resolved: Add && to list of value syntax operators in CSS2.1 (CSS2.1 Issue 113)

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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-04-08

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Discussed whether telecon agenda should be public or private. So far administrivia has been kept off the public mailing list, and since there wasn’t much enthusiasm for shifting the agenda, it will stay on the internal mailing list.
Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 24 duplicate malformed declarations rule for malformed statements (statements rule to come after declarations rule in the spec).
Resolved: Yves’ message about class selector grammar is a non-issue.
Resolved: Accept Bert’s proposal on CSS2.1 grammar.
Resolved: Publish update to CSS2.1 with errata incorporated.
Resolved: Adopt Brad Kemper’s border-image proposal to avoid relayout but make the syntax easier to understand.

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MInutes and Resolutions 2009-04-01

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Discussed what to do when the test suite format (XHTML1.1) limits the ability to fully test CSS (e.g. attributes starting with digits). (See previous discussion on public-css-testsuite.) Concluded that some tests will be HTML5 and some assertions will remain untested.
Discussed controls for page and column breaks, howcome and fantasai to propose solutions.
Discussed TPAC plans

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Minutes and Resolutions 2009-03-25

By fantasai June 23, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Discussed TPAC planning for the fall and added Test Suites for June F2F
WG chair encourages browsers to follow David Baron’s lead and coordinate on upcoming CSS feature releases
Resolved: Add a note to Selectors saying that “Since pseudo-elements are not simple selectors, they are not a valid argument to :not().”
Resolved: Make a joint CSS SVG task force, Doug to set it up, specs of common interest to send comments there, mailing list will be public read-write.
Resolved: Publish updated Working Draft of CSS Template Layout Module.
Discussed proposals for CSS2.1 Issue 24; resolution needed before updated CR publication.
Resolved: In response to Yves’ comment, keep grammar and prose as is for 2.1; defer issue on tightening up grammar to css3.

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Minutes and resolutions 2009-03-18

By Bert Bos March 20, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Resolved: Publish four First Public Working Drafts: CSS Transitions, CSS 2D Transformations, CSS 3D Transformations, and CSS Animations. They will be published on the same day as the corresponding SVG 3D transformations draft.
Decided on some metadata for test cases to track who reviewed the test when.
Resolved: For CSS 2.1 issue 108: the keywords ‘none’, ‘inherit’ and ‘initial’ cannot be names of counters.

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Selectors Level 3 Updated

By fantasai March 11, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: publications

The CSS Working Group has just published a new Last Call Working Draft of the Selectors module. This working draft addresses many comments that have been received since the last publication. The Last Call period extends until April 7th; please send any comments to www-style@w3.org. Note that we will not be accepting new feature requests for Level 3. Assuming no major problems are found, we will be republishing a Selectors Candidate Recommendation in April.

Minutes and Resolutions Tokyo F2F Fri: @namespace, June F2F prep, Testing, Publications

By fantasai March 10, 2009 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Resolved: Duplicate @namespace declarations are nonconforming.
Resolved: Update CSS Namespaces CR with this clarification.
Discussed proposed topics for June F2F:
- Comments from Multicol Last Call
- GCPM should be updated, may have more issues
- Reflecting font features into CSS
- Test suites
- Paged Media should be updated, may have more issues
Reviewed test review process, tweaked it to let reviewer note r+ by adding his/her name in the test metadata and checking in.
Resolved Publish 2D Transforms once Steve’s note is properly added.