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Minutes and Resolutions August F2F: CSS3 Etc.

By fantasai September 10, 2008 (Permalink)
Categories: resolutions

Filed ISSUE-61 against CSS3 Fonts spec

John Daggett presented an overview of CSS3 Fonts including a discussion of:

Discussed structure of GCPM and its relationshp to other drafts.
Discussed border-length feature, alternative syntaxes, and moving it to Backgrounds and Borders
Discussed text-replacement proposal. Several members strongly feel it does not belong in CSS but rather as part of a transformation language that uses CSS syntax.
Discussed bookmark feature. Several members are skeptical that this belongs in CSS as it’s conveying semantic, not stylistic, information.
Discussed extensions to float.

Resolved: Split out veritcal text feature into its own draft. Microsoft plans to work on this spec as they already have an implementation.
Discussed terminology for describing vertical text layout model.
Resolved: Rename block-progression to block-flow
Resolved: Use terms “logical width” and “logical height” to refer to the inline dimension and block flow dimension of a box respectively.
Resolved: Use terms “vertical text mode” and ‘horizontal text mode” to differentiate horizontal and vertical block flows.

Resolved: No keywords in calc() for background-position
Resolved: Accept 4-value syntax for background-position in editor’s draft: 4 values that require two keywords, allow zero values to be skipped.
Resolved: Proposal to add transparent keyword to border-image rejected. (ISSUE-28)
Resolved: No change to names of background-clip and background-origin
Resolved: Publish new Working Draft of CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders, take this set of functionality to CR.

Daniel presented some changes to the CSS Variables proposal and Hyatt’s experimental implementation in WebKit.
Several people felt that parse-time macros would be preferable, and would indeed be required for handling multi-declaration substitution.

Mentioned styling of video controls, skipped topic for lack of proposal or implementor interest.
Very long discussion of <br> and how it behaves in the CSS formatting model.
href=”http://csswg.inkedblade.net/test/harness”>browseable test harness
Discussed (briefly) Template Layout module
Reviewed charter with Philippe Le Hégaret

Day 1: “CSS 2.1 Issue 52 and Definition of BR”, “Definition of BR (continued)”, “Test Harness”
Day 2: “GCPM”,
“GCPM: border-length”,
“GCPM: Text Replacement”,
“GCPM: Bookmarks”,
“Extensions to the float property”,
“Vertical text and CSS3 Text Layout”,
“Vertical Layout Terminology”,
“CSS3 Fonts”,
“CSS3 Fonts: Extending font-variant”
Day 2: “Agenda” (video controls),
“Block Flow”,
“CSS3 Backgrounds and Borders”,
“Template Layout”,
“Charter”,
“CSS Variables”