w3c/csswg-drafts on Hacker News

…proved helpful to us (Mozilla) last year, so we decided to do more or less the same again. [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10537

comment by jgraham · 2026-10-08 · in 2027 Web Platform Feature Ranking

…are actually interested in what CSS can do. To see future CSS: - You can see the proposals here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues - Proposals often require experiments which you can find on mastodon/fediverse. For example:…

comment by spartanatreyu · 2026-08-12 · in CSS properties you should know for better text designs

…hasn't been action on it for some time. Not sure if they hit a snag or it's just on the back burner https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2406 This proposal has the benefit of not violating the tree structure should multiple :wrap…

comment by rezonant · 2026-05-24 · in On The <dl> (2021)

Proposal from 2016 (closed): https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/588

comment by eurleif · 2026-05-23 · in On The <dl> (2021)

…proposed as an `@color-scheme` rule or block.) It can be an interesting discussion to follow: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9660

comment by WorldMaker · 2026-04-20 · in Six Levels of Dark Mode (2024)

…want your line lengths to all be the same length. See also, related CSS Working Group issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/191

comment by dnlzro · 2026-03-30 · in Pretext: TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout

…to get the desired effect, if they are doing this in CSS rather than with just the meta tag. [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/blob/main/css-env-1/expl... [2] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/blob/main/css-env-1/expl...

comment by ameliaquining · 2026-01-27 · in Try text scaling support in Chrome Canary

…to the sidebar on top of each other, so you only see one of them at a time. Eventualy I hope that https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9098 will land and we'll be able to use this saner way to do it.

comment by pbowyer · 2026-01-15 · in New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes

…into CSS in a backwards-compatible way, but that doesn’t make it any less insane to learn. [2] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1544 [3] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1724

comment by csnover · 2026-01-05 · in CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)

…ttps://webkit.org/blog/16026/css-masonry-syntax/#footnote-1 > [css-grid-3] Renaming masonry keyword — https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9733

comment by JimDabell · 2025-12-20 · in CSS Grid Lanes

…it, behind a feature flag. Then WebKit proposed an alternative that was discussed at length: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10233

comment by afavour · 2025-12-19 · in CSS Grid Lanes

I found an actual proposal which is very similar: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5091

comment by Y-bar · 2025-11-07 · in Springs and Bounces in Native CSS

…things... Here's a related disucssion on what 'pixelated' should mean from the css working group https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5837 (every so often browsers break/rename how nearest-neighbouring filtering works. I hope at some…

comment by jan_Inkepa · 2025-10-16 · in Sharp Bilinear Filters: Big Clean Pixels for Pixel Art

The standard for this has been developed in the open at the CSSWG with one of the SASS developers: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350

comment by bastawhiz · 2025-10-14 · in Show HN: CSS Extras

…of browser bugs and design issues got in the way. I reported them, and they're being worked on https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12466 The `margin:0` issue was particularly frustrating & imo should have been covered in the…

comment by jaffathecake · 2025-08-13 · in A gentle introduction to anchor positioning

…tweak which was easy to specify, implement, and test, though - bigger things are probably harder. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6203

comment by pxeger1 · 2025-07-31 · in I tried Servo

> How do you propose standards to the web groups? I'm not sure. I tried opening an issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts but that didn't get me very far. I suspect it's a case of making connections and then getting yourself an…

comment by nicoburns · 2025-07-31 · in I tried Servo

…functions. In CSS, there's a long standing feature request to add a spring() timing function: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/280 This would not only be great for developer ergonomics, but would remove JS from the animation path…

comment by spankalee · 2025-07-23 · in I'm Unsatisfied with Easing Functions

…smoother gamut mapping than CIE Lch (on the right) ("Explore OKLab gamut mapping in oklch"): https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9449#issuecomment...

comment by gardaani · 2025-07-10 · in HyAB k-means for color quantization

…ignored. But it's why there's a push to artificially limit the HDR range in mixed conditions, eg https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9074

comment by kllrnohj · 2025-04-17 · in HDR‑Infused Emoji

…that: there's a W3C CSS4 Community Group[0] now, and you can find more detail on their proposal at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4770 and ongoing CSS[3|4|5|Next] categorisation work at https://css-levels.netlify.app/ [0]:…

comment by DicIfTEx · 2025-03-12 · in You suck at CSS and that's okay (2022)

…as mixins? I looks like there’s only a single return value. Edit: Looks like mixins are planned: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment...

comment by genuine_smiles · 2025-03-03 · in CSS Custom Functions are coming

related: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/10674

comment by greggman25 · 2025-03-02 · in Reimagining Fluid Typography

…Level 1; but since everyone was apparently so supremely bored by the whole thing, they gave up < https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4766 >. But because it’s rendering, CSSWG is still probably the best place for it.) —⁂— Anyway:…

comment by chrismorgan · 2025-02-11 · in Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide

…mess in sorting the spec. out, check out the discussions in the csswg-drafts repo, for instance: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1915 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6466 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1009…

comment by JimDabell · 2024-10-26 · in A Modern CSS Reset (2024 update)

…the CSS "masonry" feature so we could finally have that without scripting, I'd be very happy. [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9733

comment by qingcharles · 2024-09-05 · in CSS @property and the new style

…UI systems do layout), which has the potential to greatly simplify web layout in the common cases https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8267 . It's been on the back burner for a bit, but I should really get back to it at some point (I…

comment by nicoburns · 2024-08-12 · in Blitz: A lightweight, modular, extensible web renderer

…silly me indeed to think CSS attribute selectors already can do numeric comparisons! See here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/354

comment by aragonite · 2024-07-17 · in How we sped up Notion in the browser with WASM SQLite

…still in "not ready for implementation" limbo after years. [2]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2452 - "resolved" by an unclear IRC log(?), but never specified to my knowledge. It's not an irrelevant edge case e

comment by shiomiru · 2024-06-10 · in So you want to build a browser engine

…of the opposite argument ("display: masonry" over "display:grid"+"grid-template-rows: masonry") see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9041

comment by pimterry · 2024-04-23 · in Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout

The tracking issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8659 As noted there, okHSL/HSV keeps the perceptual uniformity by removing some peaks beyond the geometric limit of HSL/HSV, and it is unclear whether it is what users do…

comment by lifthrasiir · 2024-04-08 · in High Definition CSS Color Guide

…sticky headers on one axis, but am still waiting for the day that CSS supports them on both axes: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8286

comment by LinguaBrowse · 2024-02-24 · in Please make your table headings sticky

…submission title (“CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins”): https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment... > RESOLVED: Start ED of css-mixins for CSS Custom Functions and Mixins

comment by chrismorgan · 2024-02-13 · in CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins

…elsewhere for a more appropriate definition for that case and found this issue on standards: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1477 It was really interesting to know that I was not the only one confused. My question was: Does the…

comment by bacro · 2024-01-07 · in Things engineers believe about Web development

…sizes transitions, but it's far from intuitive, transition for "height:auto" should just work. [1]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/626

comment by mpawelski · 2023-12-28 · in CSS Is Fun Again

…shipped as there are still quite a few open spec issues [^1] that need to be resolved first. [^1]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...

comment by bramus · 2023-10-10 · in The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()

…here would allow this to scale and still provide a helper function for small projects to use: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7561#issuecomment...

comment by jjcm · 2023-10-10 · in The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()

I strongly prefer this more flexible/future proof proposal: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7561#issuecomment...

comment by namuol · 2023-10-10 · in The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()

…would at least scale (and would allow for color-scheme's custom identifier support to be useful): https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7561#issuecomment...

comment by jjcm · 2023-10-09 · in The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()

the irc log is here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7542#issuecomment... i had the same reaction, it seems like a very weird syntax. but after reading the discussion i get it: you're telling a form field to behave like a normal…

comment by notatoad · 2023-09-30 · in CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)

…shipped it (behind a flag?) but it’s still up in the air, even the property name itself. Follow: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7542

comment by corbezzoli · 2023-09-30 · in CSS solves auto-expanding textareas (probably, eventually)

I'm talking about on the web. Apple proposed the standard: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3299 Safari 12.1 was the first browser to ship with color-scheme and prefers-color-scheme support: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc…

comment by lapcat · 2023-09-07 · in Ask HN: What are some well-designed websites?

…and that link’s a 404, and the @viewport stuff hasn’t ever been implemented and has been retired < https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4766 >, so I’m not sure if there’s actually any nominally-active spec for meta viewport at…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-05-29 · in Media Queries and Responsive Design

Soon! https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/commit/1fae25fa283c708f7...

comment by glasshug · 2023-05-26 · in Times New Bastard

The CSS Working Group has resolved to relax the syntax in https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7961 so what you desire is coming :)

comment by foolip · 2023-05-17 · in Conditional CSS with:has and:nth-last-child

…web content. Apps might have an argument for using it, but general web content should not use it. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658 has some details (mostly by others, but I chip in towards the end), and I’ve written more in…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-04-26 · in Show HN: Neat – Minimalist CSS Framework

…it’s a trap, there’s basically no legitimate scenario for these semantics on the public web. See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3658 (skim through a bit, I’ve got a comment near the end too). Monospace Slab Serif: every one of…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-03-15 · in Show HN: Modern Font Stacks – New system font stack CSS for modern OSs

…passing a complex selector to an `el.querySelector()`. (We discussed adopting Sass's behavior in < https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8310#issuecomment... > but ultimately dropped it.)

comment by TabAtkins · 2023-02-16 · in WebKit Supports Nested CSS

See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7961 , which details some of the problems, including genuine and currently irreconcilable ambiguities, and goes into attempting to make it work by adding convoluted and complex rules and…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-02-16 · in WebKit Supports Nested CSS

…this specific matter (with links to other relevant polls which on the surface contradict this one). https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7834#issuecomment... , on this exact matter (chosen as a convenient starting point, after…

comment by chrismorgan · 2023-02-16 · in WebKit Supports Nested CSS