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  1. …and been a thorn in implementations since.[3] 1: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/334 2: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4760 3: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/93#issuecomment-4...
  2. …also the behavior if browsers would someday support animation of `width/height: auto` natively. [0] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/626 [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3508605/how-can-i-transi... [2]…
    comment by mpawelski · 2022-12-24 · in Things CSS could still use heading into 2023
  3. …ignore this in the new units, only caring about the mobile issues. Perhaps more relevant now is https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6026 (loosely about bringing something back). The scrollbar-gutter suggestion would be fairly…
  4. …And the GitHub discussion seems to imply that it's mostly down to what the existing browsers did? https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1766
  5. …found this via "A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting"[1] [0]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7834#issuecomment... [1]: https://chriscoyier.net/2022/11/09/a-brief-and-probably-only...
  6. …to apply mixins that can dynamically based on style resolution, which is what sunk @apply. See https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3714
    comment by spankalee · 2022-10-22 · in Speaking Up for Sass (2021)
  7. …which I'm somewhat surprised to not see any mention of, neither here nor the w3c's GitHub issues ( https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues ). I was originally thinking of only treating nesting from a parent to child but the child to…
    comment by harrisi · 2022-07-27 · in Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
  8. The CSS Working Group uses GitHub primarily, and any minutes from IRC are added to the issue. Here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues You are very welcome to contribute!
    comment by rachelandrew · 2022-07-27 · in Help pick a syntax for CSS nesting
  9. you're right, the spec changed Feb 2021 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6038 That said, my main point stands, Nearest Neighbor looks horrible when you have a non-integer devicePixelRatio which is relatively common. You'll get…
    comment by greggman3 · 2022-06-13 · in Challenge: Pixel perfect design
  10. …at risk, we might find it is as dangerous as Chrome said, csswg might remove it from the draft. [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/4733 [2] https://groups.google.com/u/0/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/h... [3]…
    comment by rektide · 2022-06-08 · in What’s new in Safari and WebKit
  11. …actively sabotaging web app, why such a big obvious problem is left untouched like that. See also: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6299
  12. Concretely, https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6026#issuecomment... and https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5254 . My summary: a year and two ago, one guy (OK, an Invited Expert, so he is involved in matters and isn’t just a…
  13. …say general links should be blue and purple and underlined, and anything else is troublemaking. (In https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3012 , there’s talk of changing :visited to essentially work from the site’s…
  14. …mobile browsers, and are still frustratingly utterly broken by design for most desktop platforms. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6551 , https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/6026 . Until all of this stuff gets sorted out,…
  15. …includes system-wide dark mode option. 2018-06-04: W3C issue created for light/dark mode via CSS: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2735 2018-09-24: MacOS 10.14 (Mojave) includes system-wide dark mode option. Safari tech preview…
    comment by jml7c5 · 2022-02-03 · in Ask HN: How did dark mode win?
  16. CSS currently cannot model physics based timing functions but there is a proposal for spring() ( https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/280 )
  17. …seems to have adapted a color space parameter for interpolation in its drafts. See discussion here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5833
  18. …works alongside existing work, and this is a good example of that. There’s a discussion on this at github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5394. You raise a few issues with the current implementation/compliance/interop. Getting compliant and…
  19. …https://tabatkins.github.io/specs/css-nesting/ [1] https://github.com/csstools/postcss-nesting [2] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/2878
    comment by JimDabell · 2021-09-01 · in CSS Nesting Module
  20. …of auto-resizing an iframe: relevant spec issues are https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/555 and https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771 .) ② A submit button or link to a URL that returns status 204 No Content . (CSS image…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2021-06-08 · in Fastly Outage
  21. …I hope this gets addressed in a future version of the spec one day. Gtihub issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/865 The biggest issue that happens to me is that I'll have a large data table where I want `overflow-x:auto` with a
    comment by RheingoldRiver · 2021-06-04 · in HTML and CSS techniques to reduce your JavaScript
  22. You still need spacers in 2021 to add bottom padding to CSS grid: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/129#issuecomment-...
    comment by nailer · 2021-05-21 · in Learn CSS
  23. On that note, masonry layout is finally coming to CSS: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-grid-3/ https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4650 (Think Pinterest layout with ltr ordering, which is extremely problematic in pure CSS)
    comment by o_____________o · 2021-05-12 · in CSS Houdini
  24. …it. Until then, you might want to try [2] (not a polyfill, but a workaround with JavaScript). [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5796 [2] https://philipwalton.com/articles/responsive-components-a-so...
    comment by FrontAid · 2021-04-22 · in The anti-pattern of responsive design
  25. At someone's recommendation a while ago I made a proposal for integer-multiple upscaling - https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5967 . It feels very niche, especially given how complex the standards already are, but OTOH I'd use it…
    comment by jan_Inkepa · 2021-03-31 · in Let’s fix font size
  26. …media query and designers didn't expect you would have so many pixels horizontally... [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/614
  27. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5743 Appears to be a junior/intermediate dev with somewhat ambitious and rather ideological views. That doesn't mean he's wrong but bear in mind the context of the enthusiasm and desire to change…
  28. …you're referencing. [1] https://css-tricks.com/piecing-together-approaches-for-a-css... [2] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4650
    comment by unicornporn · 2020-11-22 · in Show HN: A simple way to make HTML websites
  29. …We could have had this without all of the Shadow DOM baggage. Though maybe it's coming back now? https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3547
    comment by Jasper_ · 2020-09-30 · in The Failed Promise of Web Components
  30. …like 2ality does for JavaScript[7]. 1: https://stateofcss.com/ 2: https://preset-env.cssdb.org/ 3: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts 4: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/ 5: https://alistapart.com/ 6: https://rachelandrew.co.uk/ 7:…
    comment by runarberg · 2020-07-17 · in Things I wish I’d known about CSS
  31. …you might be interested in the proposal to extend CSS Grid to have Masonry support; see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4650 .
  32. …typesetting, or JavaScript solutions [3]. [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/css-text-4/#text-wrap [2] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/672 [3] https://github.com/robertknight/tex-linebreak
  33. …of elements. And there is no progress in fixing it at CSS standard level. It's just sad... https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/626 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3508605/how-can-i-transi...…
    comment by mpawelski · 2020-05-19 · in How to Center in CSS (2015)
  34. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1766 is the main link that explains it, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468684 is also useful.
  35. …f(env(x))` (a stupid way of getting a runtime-invalid value due to a bad spec, see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3792 for details)? Nada. You could provide your own styles for form elements, but you can’t use user styles to…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2020-03-31 · in Updates to form controls and focus
  36. …sRGB, Display-p3 or Lab colors in gradients and animations. There's an open issue about it at W3C: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4647 I think Safari currently fails to display such gradients.
    comment by gardaani · 2020-03-03 · in Wide Gamut Color in CSS with Display-P3
  37. …(In using env(), I must caution that it’s currently rather broken for some sorts of situations: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3285. )
  38. …that lets you make the <iframe> act more like an autosizing <div> than a fixed-size frame. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771 is a suggestion for adding this sizing into CSS, but there's concern about the ability to leak…
  39. …and feedback from anyone anywhere is taken seriously. Don't like something about css? go here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues . Something wrong with SVG? https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues . An issue with the Payment Handler…
  40. https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2701#issuecomment... > Yeah, very intentionally not allowed. It causes parsing issues, for one (you can't arbitrarily split up an ident and be guaranteed that both halves are still idents), and…
    comment by dfabulich · 2019-04-26 · in Stepping Away from Sass
  41. …as a major win for everyone - to the point where there's proposals to support it in native CSS: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2701 My personal solution to avoid running watchers is to have a run-on-save task in VSCode that…
    comment by daxterspeed · 2019-04-26 · in Stepping Away from Sass
  42. …to imply that greedy line breaking must be used (and, IIRC, Prince for example does not). Filed https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3756 for this.
    comment by gsnedders · 2019-03-24 · in Hyphenation in CSS
  43. …and extends - nesting ... I forget what else, as I haven't done frontend work in a while :) [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2701#issuecomment... [2] https://github.com/tabatkins/specs/issues/56
    comment by dmitriid · 2019-02-20 · in Writing CSS Algorithms
  44. More details on supports-color-schemes: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3299 Web inspector also has a widget that toggles between light and dark mode.
  45. …a spec defining this, and there's implementer interest, so it's highly likely to happen. (This is https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2701 .)
  46. …Advanced > Style sheet, so one could perhaps add a user style sheet with color-filter. [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2875
    comment by gardaani · 2018-10-25 · in Using Dark Mode in CSS with MacOS Mojave
  47. …user. Not to mention the whole recent hullaboo about hiding the www / m / whatever prefixes. [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/2085 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17927972
  48. …with each other on how to implement web standards in a cross-browser way. Here's a good example: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/pull/1817
    comment by alwillis · 2017-12-22 · in Chrome is Not the Standard
  49. …a masonry layout recently. The answer is no, however it is actively being explored at the W3C - https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/945
  50. Apple is using W3C blessed standards: * https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1693#issuecomment... * https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#calc-notation * https://www.w3.org/TR/css-round-display-1/#viewport-fit-desc... (Apple is doing…
    comment by alwillis · 2017-09-22 · in Designing Websites for iPhone X