Standardization Stories
summary
Twenty years of standards work distilled into concrete decisions: why grid layout picked automatic placement, how scroll snapping moved from points to box alignment and gained scroll padding/margin, and why the px unit redefinition (96px = 254mm tradeoff) was necessary. Cites market numbers (IE6 >90%), shows prototypes, test suites and bug reports that drove changes, explains cross‑team reviews, tradeoffs that broke or fixed real sites, and which proposals merged into working, shipped behaviors.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:18Browser Wars
- 4:52Voluntary Standards
- 6:43CSS Layout
- 7:30Scroll Snapping
- 9:57Grid
- 10:33Vision for CSS
- 11:01PX Unit
- 12:59Backwards Compatibility
- 13:51Web Compatibility
- 16:07CSS Power
- 16:59SmartDefaulting
- 18:50ShortHands
- 23:36Summary
- 26:41Working Through Details
- 29:07CSS 3 Text
- 30:34XSLFO
- 34:48Anchor Positioning
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