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 <img style="width: 30%;" alt="Igalia logo" src="img/igalia.jpg">
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*](https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members)
## Specs * Specs: <https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work> * Editor Drafts: <https://drafts.csswg.org/> W3C Stages: <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(10,55%,55%); color: white;" title="First Public Working Draft">FPWD</span> <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(20, 78%, 55%); color: white;" title="Working Draft">WD</span> <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(62, 86%, 45%);" title="Candidate Recommendation">CR</span> <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(89, 53%, 44%); color: white;" title="Proposed Recommendation">PR</span> <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(129, 53%, 40%); color: white;" title="Recommendation">REC</span> <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(129, 53%, 40%); color: white;" title="Superseded Recommendation">SPSD</span> <span style="padding: 0 0.1em; background: hsl(129, 53%, 40%); color: white;" title="Working Group Note">NOTE</span>
## 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-drafts/> * IRC: [`#css` on irc.w3.org:6665](http://irc.w3.org/?channels=css) * Twitter: <https://twitter.com/csswg>
## How it works * [**about:csswg - An Inside View of the CSS Working Group at W3C**](http://fantasai.inkedblade.net/weblog/2011/inside-csswg/) by *fantasai* on 2011 * [**The Friction of Web Standards**](https://vimeo.com/279258468) 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-drafts/> * Issues: <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues> * PRs: <https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/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](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggNcqdwT-Y) by *Alan Stearns* at dotCSS 2015
WPT
## Web Platform Tests (WPT) * Website: <https://web-platform-tests.org/> * Repository: <https://github.com/web-platform-tests/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](https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/Fonts/Ahem/)) * `testdriver.js`
## Report browser bug * Chromium: <https://bugs.chromium.org/> * Firefox: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/> * Safari: <https://bugs.webkit.org/> * Edge: <https://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/platform/issues/> **Web Compatibilty**: <https://webcompat.com/>
## Thanks * Twitter: [@regocas](https://twitter.com/regocas) * Mail: [rego@igalia.com](mailto:rego@igalia.com) * Blog: <https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/>
