The future of style

The Future of Style aggregates posts from various blogs that talk about the development of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) [not development with Cascading Style Sheets]. While it is hosted by the W3C CSS Working Group, the content of the individual entries represent only the opinion of their respective authors and does not reflect the position of the CSS Working Group or the W3C.

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-05-05

• Discussed charter
• Plan to trim down css3-images, will discuss on www-style
• Resolved: Publish CSS3 Lists WD
• Resolved: jdaggett, szilles as editors of css3-linebox
• Resolved: Publish CSS Snapshots once unprefixed legacy properties issue is noted
• Resolved: Remove phonemes property; include note to explain removal
• Resolved: Discussed CSS logo proposal

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Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-04-27

• Discussed draft charter.
• CSSOM and CSSOM Views was seen as very important, but needing another editor to help Anne, who is stretched thin.
• Discussed CSS Snapshots and prefixes, trying to word Sylvain's suggestion that prefixes only be dropped after CR and once an implementation report is submitted (with testcases if necessary).
• Resolved: Publish updated Working Draft of CSS3 Writing Modes
• Long argument over Tab's request to create a Variables/Mixins spec, ending with a homework assignment to create a requirements doc to frame the discussion, for continuation at the F2F.

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More Module Updates from the W3C

The W3C CSS Working Group have introduced a new module to CSS3, the CSS3 Grid Layout module, as well as released two further updated specifications, for the CSS3 Multi-column Layout and CSS3 Text modules. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new. CSS3 Grid Layout Initially proposed by Microsoft, and first released as a W3C [...]

Working Draft: CSS3 Speech Module

New CSS Publications: CSS3 Fonts WD, CSS3 Text WD, CSS Grid Layout WD, CSS Multi-column Layout CR

The CSSWG recently published some updates to:

• CSS Multi-column Layout Candidate Recommendation [css3-multicol]
• CSS3 Text Working Draft [css3-text]
• CSS3 Fonts Working Draft [css3-fonts]

There's also a new module in town, CSS Grid Layout [css3-grid-layout], which attempts to integrate a number of layout features into CSS.

As always, send feedback to www-style with the appropriate [spec-code] and your comment topic in the subject line.

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-04-13

• Resolved: June F2F move to Kyoto, Japan
• Resolved: Accept the new CSSWG site design from Divya Manian
• Resolved: EPUB should use prefixed versions of properties that aren't yet in CR. No recommendations on what the prefixed property means.

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Internet Explorer 10 Debuts at Mix 2011

With Internet Explorer 9 barely out of the labs, Microsoft yesterday caught many developers by surprise, with the launch of the first platform preview of the latest incarnation of their popular web browser, Internet Explorer 10, at this years Mix conference. The latest version of Internet Explorer, currently only three weeks into the development cycle, [...]

Proposed Recommendation: CSS Level 2 Revision 1

Working Draft: CSS Text Level 3

Candidate Recommendation: CSS Multi-column Layout Level 3

Working Draft: Grid Layout

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-04-06

• Decided on Japan for June F2F, exact location TBD next week.
• Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 225 with "If the element has children" removed, pending Anton's approval.
• Resolved: dsinger's answer to Olaf adopted as official for CSS2.1 Issue 286. No change to the spec.
• Resolved: Publish updated WD of CSS3 Speech.
• Resolved: Publish updated WD of CSS3 Text.
• CSS Namespaces has the required test passes for PR, need to prepare a disposition of comments and implementation reports.

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W3C Issues Updated Working Drafts for CSS3 Flexible Box Layout and CSS3 Fonts Modules

The W3C CSS Working Group have released two further updated working draft specifications for CSS3. The first, released on 11 March, sees a major overhaul of the CSS3 Flexible Box Layout module. The second, released on 24 March, brings several enhancements to the CSS3 Fonts module. CSS3 Flexible Box Layout The CSS3 Flexible Box Layout [...]

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-03-30

• Discussed location of June F2F. Most people seem to be OK with Kyoto/Osaka (in place of Tokyo), but we need a meeting room June 2-4. (Needed: space for ~25 people, projector, power, and wifi)
• Resolved: Updated proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 203.
• CSS2.1 Issue 179 is closed with Bert's latest edits and Anton's approval.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 192

  If a shortened line box is too small to contain any content after the float, then that content the line box is shifted downward (and its width recomputed) until either it some content fits or there are no more floats present. Any content in the current line before a floated box is reflowed in the first available same line on the other side of the float.

• Resolved: Not dropping :first-line :first-letter from CSS2.1. It may be underdefined, but it's in CSS1 and CSS3 and we have a usable level of interop demonstrated in the test suite, so dropping it here doesn't gain us anything.
• Resolved: Advance CSS2.1 to PR.
• Plan for errata is to maintain errata list after REC and occasionally publish updated RECs via PER phase.

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Working Draft: CSS Fonts Module Level 3

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-03-23

• Discussed whether to move June F2F location/dates
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 240, make min/max-width/height undefined for table and inline-table.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 199, accept updated proposal with "static" removed.
• CSS2.1 Issue 203 deferred until WG can figure it out.

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Working Draft: CSS Flexible Box Layout Module

Opera ‘Barracuda’ Steps Up CSS3 Support

Opera have once again kicked their level of CSS3 support up a notch with the release of the latest beta version of their popular web browser. Opera version 11.10 beta, code named ‘Barracuda’, was first unveiled at this weeks SXSW in Austin, Texas, before being made available for download as a public beta yesterday. The [...]

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Update: this offer has now expired! Think Vitamin are offering free access to their entire CSS3 Video Training Course for 24 hours, until Wednesday March 16th at 11:59pm. The series, totalling 51 videos, covers CSS3 basics such as border-radius, box-shadow and CSS3 gradients, as well as more complex subjects including CSS3 selectors, transitions, animations and [...]

Minutes and Resolutions Mountain View F2F 2011: CSS3 Fonts, CSS3 Text

• Resolved: Publish updated WD of CSS3 Fonts with issues noted during meeting marked as issues.
• Discussed @font-feature-values syntax.
• Discussed font-feature-settings syntax.
• Discussed font matching algorithm and fallbacks.
• Discussed IVS (Unicode variation selectors) and font matching algorithm/fallback behavior.
• Discussed how to spec same-origin restrictions for font files.
• Reviewed CSS3 Text draft.
• Resolved: drop unrestricted value from text-wrap
• Resolved: use inter-character instead of bopomofo for ruby-position
• Resolved: add hyphenate, don't add none, to word-wrap
• Resolved: Make percentages on hyphenation-limit-zone relative to line box
• Resolved: rename white-space-collapsing to bikeshedding

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Minutes and Resolutions Mountain View F2F 2011: Layout, etc.

• Reviewed Adobe's CSS Regions proposal for threaded regions and exclusions. many interesting ideas were presented and many good comments and suggestions made.
• Reviewed Microsoft's CSS Grid Layout proposal, which incorporates most feedback from the last F2F.
• Resolved: Publish Microsoft's proposal as css-grid-layout, i.e. CSS Grid Layout
• Reviewed Tab's changes to Flexbox draft.
• Resolved: Publish updated draft of CSS Flexbox.
• Resolved: Publish updated CR of CSS Multi-Column Layout.
• Discussed various issues with managing the test suites, particularly expanding to handle CSS3, especially CSS3 Multi-Column Layout.
• Resolved: Use Bugzilla (instead of mailing list) for test suite bugs: one bug report per test unless there's a good reason not to.
• Resolved: Tokyo workshop tentatively scheduled May 31st and June 1st: 31st as Japanese-only, 1st also in English with CSSWG. CSSWG F2F moved to Thursday-Saturday June 2-4.
• Discussed line grid spec; Koji to write editor's draft after CSS3 Text and CSS3 Writing Modes winds down.
• SVGWG will publish LCWD of their Compositing spec very soon.

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Minutes and Resolutions Mountain View F2F 2011: CSS2.1, Charter

• Reviewed some of Bert's edits where the exact edited text was not yet approved by the WG.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 224, accept Tab's proposal.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 230, make precise numbering of list items undefined in 2.1. (It's defined in css3-lists.)
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 231, accept proposal permit root list-item to degrade to block.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 236, make the behavior of underlines through tables undefined. (Address in CSS3 Text, when we have option to cancel underlines via UA style sheet.)
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 232, make in-flow mean not out-of-flow, check that spec remains correct.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 233, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 235, accept editorial.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 239, do not propagate direction from BODY to HTML. No change to spec.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 240, make min/max-width on internal table elements explicitly undefined.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 241, accept the proposed spec change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 242, no change for now, push to errata.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 199, use Tab's proposal with edit for "static position" (instead of "auto position") and then add tests after PR.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 207, no change to spec.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 208, no change to spec.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 219, fantasai's text accepted.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 244, no change to spec (but we agree that it *is* the rendering tree).
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 245, no change. See Issue 60.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 211, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 247, undefined via issue 215.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 248, not an issue, so no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 250, use fantasai's proposed text.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 252, no change, fix in CSS3.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 253, say in 4.2 that "end of line" means CR/LF.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 254, not an issue: --> is parsed as invalid tokens in @statement. No change to spec.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 255, add "and future versions" to section 3.1.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 256, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 257, boxes do have properties. No change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 260, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 261, no change in 2.1; clarified in Selectors Level 3.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 262, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 263, nice to have, but no change for now.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 264, accept change proposed in the issue e-mail.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 265, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 266, accept issue 6, defer the others to the errata.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 267, accept proposed edit.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 203 revisit, already resolved to allow two behaviors.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 268, no change; spec is correct.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 269, use line box edges instead of block edges.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 270, no change for 2.1. Clarify in CSS3 Text.
• Resolved: Undefine background position of aspect-ratio-only images in CSS2.1 due to lack of correct implementations. (This remains, however, clearly defined in CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders.) Filed as CSS2.1 Issue 282.
• Resolved: Remove content-computed-value-001 as it is not valid.
• Resolved: Undefine sizing of replaced elements with intrinsic ratio only (No passing implementations due to misinterpretation of SVG spec.) Filed as CSS2.1 Issue 283.
• Resolved: Update CSS 2.1 exit criteria to the current (CSS3 standard) exit criteria, minus the 30-day implementation requirement. Filed as CSS2.1 Issue 284.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 179, accept edit.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 225, no change.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 226, editorial deferred to CSS3.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 229, make situation undefined.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 273, editorial deferred to future version.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 274, accept dbaron's proposal.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 275, accept Bert's proposal.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 276, note that precise behavior of :first-letter, :first-line is not defined, may be defined in a future spec.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 277, deferred to errata.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 278, say "margin box of float".
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 279, accept edit.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 280, change "to the right of it" to "next to it".
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 281, accept fantasai's proposal.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 242, proposal in minutes accepted.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 243, proposal accepted.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 227, fixed.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 238, defer to CSS3 Fonts.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 246, defer to CSS3.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 249, defer next editorial edition.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 251, defer to errata.
• Resolved: For CSS2.1 Issue 258, revise note as proposed.
• Resolved: Revert test, no changes to spec for block-in-inline-relpos.
• Resolved: Discuss new charter at next telecon (2 weeks from now)

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UniView6.0.0a: New user interface, and some feature changes

>> Use UniView

About the tool: Look up and see characters (using graphics or fonts) and property information, view whole character blocks or custom ranges, select characters to paste into your document, paste in and discover unknown characters, search for characters, do hex/dec/ncr conversions, highlight character types, etc. etc. Supports Unicode 6.0 and written with Web Standards to work on a variety of browsers. No need to install anything.

Latest changes: The majority of changes in this update relate to the user interface. They include the following:

• Many controls have been grouped under three tabs: Look up, Filter, and Options. Various previously dispersed controls were gathered together under the Filter and Options tabs. Many of the controls have been slightly renamed.
• The Search control has been moved to the top right of the window, where it is always visible.
• The old Text Area is now a Copy & Paste control that has a 2-dimensional input box. In browser such as Safari, Chrome and Firefox 4, this box can be stretched by the user to whatever size is preferred.
• The icon that provides a toggle switch between revealing detailed information for a character in a list or table, or copying that character to the Copy & Paste box has been redesigned. It stands alone and indicates the location of the current outcome using arrows.
  It looks like this: or this .
• Title text has been provided for all controls, describing briefly what that control does. You can see this information by hovering over the control with the mouse.

Many of these changes were introduced to make it a little easier for newcomers to get to grips with UniView.

There were also some feature changes:

• The ‘Codepoints’ control was converted to accept text as well as code points and renamed ‘Characters’. By default the control expect hex code point values, but this can be switched using the radio buttons. For text, you would usually use the ‘Copy & Paste’ control, but if you want to check out some characters without disturbing the contents of that control, you can now do so by setting the ‘Character’ radio button on the ‘Characters’ control.
• The control to look up characters in the Unihan database was fixed, but also extended to handle multiple characters at a time, opening a separate window for each character. (UniView warns you if you try to open more than 5 windows.)
• The control to send characters to the Unicode Conversion tool was fixed and now puts the character content of the field in the green box of the Converter Tool. If you need to convert hex or decimal code point values, do that in the converter.
• The Show Age feature now works with lists, not just tables.

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-03-02

• Discussed F2F topic scheduling. CSS2.1 on Monday, layout topics on Tuesday.
• Resolved: Simplify quotes-035 so that it doesn't test the part Opera implements incorrectly so that we can get a second pass.
• Resolved: Sizing of replaced elements with intrinsic ratio but no width or height (i.e. scalable SVG) is undefined in CSS2.1 due to lack of correct implementations.
• Resolved: Proposal accepted for CSS2.1 Issue 222
• Reviewed a handful of other CSS2.1 issues.

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W3C Release Series of Updated CSS3 Specifications

Over the course of the last two weeks, the W3C CSS Working Group have issued three updated CSS3 specifications. The first sees the CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders module return to candidate recommendation, with the second and third providing updated working drafts of the CSS3 Text and CSS3 Image Values and Replaced Content modules respectively. The [...]

Small update to Unicode Converter tool (v7.04)

It has always been possible to pass a string to the converter in the URI, but that was never documented.

Now it is, and you can pass a string using the q parameter. For example, http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/?q=Crêpes. You can also pass a string with escapes in it, but you will need to be especially careful to percent escape characters such as &, + and # which affect the URI syntax. For example, http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/?q=CrU%2B00EApes.

Minutes and Resolutions Telecon 2011-02-23

The WG looked at the handful of remaining test cases for CSS 2.1 that don't have two passes yet. Some are no doubt invalid, some will need careful study at the ftf.

The upcoming ftf will have some extra guests to talk about layout grids and non-rectangular flows. The one after that should have a forum right before or after it to meet with Japanese designers and companies.

Resolutions:

• Resolved: Accept proposed edit for issue 214.
• Conditionally resolved: Accept Tab's proposal for issue 224, pending review of tests by Elika.

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