CSS Chat Summary: 18 March 2021

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The meeting took place here on Slack. @notlaura facilitated and @danfarrow wrote up these notes.

Housekeeping

Following last week’s discussion we agreed that, from 01 April onwards, the meeting time will advance from 10pm to 9pm UTC to accommodate daylight saving time
The bugscrub time will similarly be brought forward one hour from 01 April onwards

Project updates

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. audit (#49582)

@ryelle‘s audit tool is nearly ready to share with the wider community once the “container audit” feature is in place
The PostCSS PR is tested & ready to merge. UPDATE: Now merged, thanks @ryelle!
@notlaura asked if the tool is ready to have its repo moved into the WordPress org. @ryelle will ask in #meta

Colour scheming (#49999)

We will have another mock-up share at the next meeting (25 March). If you’re able to please bring a mock-up of a component of your choice using custom properties
@ryelle reported having updated her mockup to use a roughly --prefix--location--property--state naming pattern e.g. --wp-admin--button-primary--hover
In @ryelle’s example some custom properties are derived from other custom properties e.g. --wp-admin--button-secondary--text: var(--wp-admin--button-primary). Users could override these derived values as required

Open Floor + CSS Link Share

@notlaura shared this Lea Verou article describing a way to create apparant organic randomness in CSS using prime numbers & nth-child,
@danfarrow shared this Kevin Powell video introducing the CSS is() pseudo-class & how it can reduce selector complexity
@notlaura shared this page of anti-racism resources, following the tragic attacks in northeast Atlanta, Georgia

With that the meeting drew to a close. Thanks everyone!

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