A presentation at W3C Developer Meetup in in Lyon, France by Manuel Rego Casasnovas
BE PART OF CSS EVOLUTION MANUEL REGO CASASNOVAS (@regocas) W3C Developer Meetup / 22 October 2018 (Lyon)
ABOUT ME Igalia Web Platform Team Web engines hacker working on Chromium/Blink and Safari/WebKit Member of CSS Working Group since 2017
CSS
CSSWG Website: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/ Wiki: https://wiki.csswg.org/
MEMBERS W3C Member Organizations Representatives W3C Staff W3C Invited Experts Today 129 people
SPECS Specs: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/currentwork Editor Dra s: https://dra s.csswg.org/ W3C Stages: FPWD WD CR PR REC SPSD NOTE
MEETINGS 1 hour confcall per week (~20-30 people) 3-4 face-to-face meetings per year (~30-50 people) Minutes and log (scribe) published at www-style
COMMUNICATION Mailing list www-style: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/ GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-dra s/ IRC: #css on irc.w3.org:6665 Twitter: https://twitter.com/csswg
HOW IT WORKS about:csswg - An Inside View of the CSS Working Group at W3C by fantasai on 2011 The Friction of Web Standards by Eric Meyer at CSS Day 2018
CONTRIBUTING TO CSS
FEEDBACK GitHub issues Blog posts/Articles Tweets Deprecated: Mails to www-style (end up as GitHub issues nowadays)
GITHUB Repository: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-dra s/ Issues: https://github.com/w3c/csswgdra s/issues PRs: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-dra s/pulls
GOOD GITHUB ISSUE Look for similar issues (opened and closed) Tag ([css-grid], [css-text], etc.) and link the spec accordingly Describe issue clearly including use case for motivation Provide reduced test case
REFERENCES Becoming Responsible for CSS by Alan Stearns at dotCSS 2015
WPT
WEB PLATFORM TESTS (WPT) Website: https://web-platform-tests.org/ Repository: https://github.com/web-platformtests/wpt Browse: http://w3c-test.org/
WPT DASHBOARD Stable: https://wpt.fyi/ Experimental: https://wpt.fyi/results/? label=experimental
TESTS testharness.js Reference tests (Ahem font) testdriver.js
REPORT BROWSER BUG Chromium: https://bugs.chromium.org/ Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ Safari: https://bugs.webkit.org/ Edge: https://developer.microso .com/microso edge/platform/issues/ Web Compatibilty: https://webcompat.com/
THANKS Twitter: @regocas Mail: rego@igalia.com Blog: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/ © Fred PO https://www.flickr.com/photos/aline-et-fred/8372800549/
We are used to using CSS on a daily basis in our web developments but... can we have any influence on its definition? Of course we can! And nowadays in a very simple way.
In this presentation we will talk about the CSS Working Group of the W3C: how it works, who is part of this group, where are their repositories and, more importantly, how anyone can provide feedback to improve the CSS specifications.
Very related to this work are all the interoperability efforts that are being performed by the different standard bodies and browser vendors with the goal of building a better Web for everyone. On the final part of the talk we will focus on the web-platform-tests repository and how to contribute to it.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
for free. You
can too.