CSS Chat Summary: 17 June 2021

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

Housekeeping

@notlaura asked for feedback on the meeting format as the recurring agenda is currently quite sparse. Please let us know if you have any specific items you’d like to see on the agenda!

Project updates

Custom Properties (#49930)

Some progress has been made on the collaborative documentation
@notlaura suggested using 25 minutes to work on contributions, either to the documentation or the Try Custom properties pull request

[ 25 minutes later… ]

@notlaura used the time to clone the PR and investigate making updates, while @danfarrow made some progress on the documentation
This format was quite successful and I think we’ll try it again in future!

Open floor / CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. link share

@danfarrow shared a CSS Tricks post about new features in Safari 15 which includes support for a theme metaMeta Meta is a term that refers to the inside workings of a group. For us, this is the team that works on internal WordPress sites like WordCamp Central and Make WordPress.-tagtag A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses tags to store a single snapshot of a version (3.6, 3.6.1, etc.), the common convention of tags in version control systems. (Not to be confused with post tags.) to set a custom colour for the top part of the browser chrome
@notlaura pasted a section of the article which mentions Google’s FLoC targeted advertising technology, then contrasts it with Apple’s Private Relay “a technology very specifically to making web browsing untrackable”

With that we finished the meeting a few minutes early. Thanks everyone!

#core-css, #summary

Welcome!

Communication

Housekeeping

Project updates

Custom Properties (#49930)

Open floor / CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. link share

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