CSS Chat Summary: 19 August 2021

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

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Properties (#49930)

@dryanpress outlined the goal of the project: To replace hard-coded colors in WordPress CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. stylesheets with CSS Custom Properties
@circlecube & @wazeter are close to posting their contributions
@wazeter asked for (and received!) confirmation that contributions should be submitted as PRs to the try/custom-properties branch of @ryelle’s WordPress Develop fork
@dryanpress posted a project status update:
- This Google Doc is the working document with all the steps
- Work is continuing on (ryelle/wordpress-develop)[https://github.com/ryelle/wordpress-develop/pull/2]
- Last week’s chat summary here covers our discussion around box-shadow, why we can’t use HSL and that we’ll be continuing discussion on this PR
- This project is targeted for experimental release in WordPress 5.9 and then a stable release in 6.0. To make WordPress 5.9, the project probably needs to be merge-ready by end of August
@robertg asked if rgba values should be assigned to custom properties. @dryanpress linked to the PR which has some discussion on that question, noting that rgba values are mostly used in box-shadow. We’ll hopefully soon reach a consensus on this point in the discussion
@ryelle asked for input on this PR about CSS loading & dependencies. @dryanpress replied with a link to an issue he experienced with a partial colour change on the user profile page, and saved values not updating after reload
@dryanpress then announced the start of this week’s <working-time>

Working Time

@robertg has taken on src/wp-admin/css/customize-controls.css which 2900+`lines of CSS. Bon courage Robert!
@wazeter has looked at other contributors change files in order to see how others have approached the problem, which seems like a sensible approach

CSS Link Share / Open Floor

@dryanpress shared a tweet about pending browser support for the experimental accent-color property which would set a custom colour to form elements in one simple CSS rule
@dryanpress also shared a link about Chromium based browsers soon supporting dynamic CSS module imports in JavaScript

Thanks everyone!

#core-css, #summary

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Communication

CSSCSS Cascading Style Sheets. Custom Properties (#49930)

Working Time

CSS Link Share / Open Floor

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