The Friction of Web Standards
summary
CSS Grid ships in March 2017 across four major browsers in three weeks, but Grid itself takes literal years from proposal to stable feature because of tangled interactions in specs and legacy behavior. Examples include rounded-corner clipping, background-origin/ repeat spacing, box-shadow placement, subgrid complexity and the display:contents accessibility bug. Practical moves that actually help are filing reproducible bugs, enabling experimental web platform features and prototyping with preprocessors or Houdini so implementations and specs meet real-world, surprising combinations.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:22The Web of 1991
- 9:44Rounded Corners
- 10:41Four Examples
- 11:24Two Examples
- 13:39Clipping
- 14:50Background Repeat Space
- 19:00Set Shadows
- 20:30Border Style
- 23:23Browser Transitions
- 24:35Gradients
- 26:29Image Borders
- 29:50Unresolved Questions
- 32:47Grid Layout
- 34:05SubGrid
- 35:33Display Contents
- 36:55How Can We Help
- 37:07Experiment
- 38:22Experimental Features
- 39:39Preprocessors
- 41:36Houdini
- 41:50Friction as Responsibility
- 42:18Conclusion
