Becoming Responsible for CSS

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CSS specification discussion moves onto GitHub issues so anyone can propose changes and follow tagged threads; shapes is implemented in two engines and in development in a third. Report browser bugs with cross‑browser testcases that can become W3C tests to prevent regressions; past profiling shows ~40% of some polyfill time is just parsing CSS strings. Houdini work exposes hooks like custom properties v2 and a typed OM for scriptable paint, layout and font metrics.

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1. 0:00Introduction to CSS responsibility
2. 1:27CSS Working Group overview
3. 3:14Personal journey into CSS standards
4. 6:05Talk about your CSS work
5. 13:24Report browser incompatibilities
6. 17:37Houdini and JavaScript in CSS
7. 23:55Call to action for CSS contributors

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