CSS Chat Summary: 06 May 2021

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

Housekeeping

Check in on bugbug A bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority. scrub frequency

As recent bug scrubs have been low energy we decided to switch them to a monthly basis
CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. bug scrubs will now run on the first Thursday of each month
@lukecarbis added the scrub to this bug scrub schedule for 5.8

Project updates

CSS Audit (#49582)

The CSS Audit v1.0 project is effectively finished! We briefly discussed some ideas for future features including adding a parameter to specify different configs, and storing weekly JSONJSON JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a minimal, readable format for structuring data. It is used primarily to transmit data between a server and web application, as an alternative to XML. reports for historical analysis
Good progress has been made on the draft Make post

Color Scheming (#49999)

@ryelle has a Make post ready for review, with a roadmap for future work
We discussed @ryelle’s proposed timeline and agreed that aiming for 5.8 would be too ambition

CSS deprecation path (#53070)

@ryelle brought up a deprecation example from current CSS where a class name has changed and the old class name has been marked as /* deprecated */. She wondered how this would fit into deprecated.css without requiring duplication of lots of CSS

Open floor / CSS link share

@notlaura reported having added a note to #40686 summarising our discussion on a CSS class naming convention for JSJS JavaScript, a web scripting language typically executed in the browser. Often used for advanced user interfaces and behaviors. targeting
@danfarrow shared this CSS-Tricks article on the experimental color-contrast() CSS function that will choose the highest contrast value from an array of colours (only in Safari currently)

Thanks everyone!

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