Moving Web Standards Forward, Faster
summary
Argument: standards must advance specification and implementation together, not one after the other. Evidence: CSS specs balloon from 25,000 words to ~390,000 words, CSS2.1 takes 10 years while CSS1 and CSS2 took ~1 year, and browsers ship six‑week release cycles. Tools and results: Adobe pushes CSS regions and exclusions with a JavaScript polyfills fallback used in a CodePen rodeo, showing ideas prototypeable now but slower to reach uniform native support.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:56What is a Web Standard?
- 7:56Standards Bodies Making Standards Happen
- 8:55The W3C Process Working Draft
- 10:05CSS Grid Layout #container { display: grid; }
- 16:14Standards synthesize specification & implementation
- 17:17Standards are continuously evolving
- 18:08Text Layout
- 25:24Faster Specifications
- 26:16Modular Standards
- 28:50Masking clip-path: shap
- 31:43Faster Implementations
- 33:47Faster functionality
- 38:20Standards are Tools
- 38:48Help get them where they need to go . Grab a test version of your browser
