w3c/csswg-drafts on Hacker News

…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

…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...

comment by trynewideas · 2023-01-18 · in QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation

…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

…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…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-12-01 · in New CSS units that account for mobile viewports with dynamic toolbars

…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

comment by int_19h · 2022-12-01 · in New CSS units that account for mobile viewports with dynamic toolbars

…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...

comment by clairity · 2022-11-09 · in Updated CSS Nesting Syntax to Avoid Common Copy-and-Paste Errors

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story by clairity · 2022-11-09 · 1 comment

…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)

…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

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

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

…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

…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

comment by mmis1000 · 2022-04-27 · in Apple's grip on iOS browser engines disallowed under proposed EU rules

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…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-03-07 · in Interop 2022: browsers working together to improve the web for developers

…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…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-03-06 · in Retrieving your browsing history through a CAPTCHA

…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,…

comment by chrismorgan · 2022-02-16 · in CSS scroll snap slide deck that supports live coding

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story by clairity · 2022-02-08 · 0 comments

…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?

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Scroll-start: allowing overflow scroll to not start at 0 on first layout pass

story by ksec · 2022-01-25 · 0 comments

CSS currently cannot model physics based timing functions but there is a proposal for spring() ( https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/280 )

comment by udbhavs · 2022-01-12 · in Show HN: I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS

…seems to have adapted a color space parameter for interpolation in its drafts. See discussion here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5833

comment by NelsonMinar · 2022-01-11 · in CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”

…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…

comment by Guidii · 2021-09-22 · in Show HN: Motion One – New animation library, built on the Web Animations API

…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

…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

…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

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

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story by nailer · 2021-05-21 · 0 comments

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

…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

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

…media query and designers didn't expect you would have so many pixels horizontally... [1] https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/614

comment by neop1x · 2021-02-03 · in Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone

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…

comment by mellosouls · 2020-11-25 · in Grand Unification of Web Technologies Proposal

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story by phillipwills · 2020-11-25 · 1 comment

…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

…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

…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

…you might be interested in the proposal to extend CSS Grid to have Masonry support; see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4650 .

comment by jfk13 · 2020-06-28 · in Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

…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

comment by mpetroff · 2020-05-23 · in Show HN: LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document

…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)

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.

comment by chrismorgan · 2020-04-22 · in Show HN: Pattern.css – CSS-only library to fill empty background with patterns

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story by bryanrasmussen · 2020-04-06 · 0 comments

…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

…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

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story by jp_sc · 2020-02-26 · 0 comments

…(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. )

comment by chrismorgan · 2019-10-14 · in Issue 914451: Autofill does not respect autocomplete="off"

…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…

comment by jcranmer · 2019-09-25 · in DOMPurify, Security in the DOM, and Why We Really Need Both [pdf]