CSS Cascading Style Sheets. Chat Summary: 21st May 2020
Full meeting transcript on Slack: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/CQ7V4966Q/p1590094908056800
I (@notlaura) facilitated the meeting.
CSS audit updates
@isabel_brison had a couple of questions, and we clarified some items mentioned in the report outline:
For “List of unique values for each of a list of properties, and number of occurrences:” we discussed that margins, padding, top/left/bottom/right, transforms, and typography related properties would be useful for standardizing our units of measurement. @ryelle‘s audit tool would certainly be useful for that.
The other question was to do with the item “Units: instances of px/em/rem/%age and count of use with properties”. We discussed that that should be limited to areas that affect responsive/zoom behavior, or properties where px unit are used but and probably shouldn’t be. Extending this to more than those cases might be beyond the scope of the audit and difficult to automate. Part of the original intent of that item was to identify “brute force layout”, but we discussed that basically the entire wp-admin (and super admin) is brute force layout and auditing that would require manual inspection. Also, that is a subjective item and perhaps a conversation more appropriate for a CSS coding standards discussion after following the audit.
Color Scheming Update
@kburgoine has been doing lots of prep work and reading through historical tickets to get a good understanding of the problem with the current color schemes. She mentioned that the most pressing issue is not necessarily backwards compatibility, rather, the number of colors in use.
We discussed some more about design tokens, and I updated that I elaborated on my idea for the implementation in @ryelle‘s Gutenberg PR, and in a new comment on the “Iterating on Admin Color Schemes” ticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker..
I also mentioned some recent activity on the ticket for Dark Mode – which is potentially a conversation we can participate in since the intent behind re-vamping color schemes it to be able to support something like Dark Mode.
Open Floor
@peterwilsoncc jumped in at the end with a question about #46090 and including the X-UA-Compatible header The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website. It can influence a visitor’s opinion about your content and you/ your organization’s brand. It may also look different on different screen sizes. for IE detection.
That was all for this week!
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