CSS Chat Summary: 16 September 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 shared the working document and the trac ticket, for anybody new to the project
All coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. CSS files have now been claimed, and are either in progress or have a PR, however @dryanpress reminded us that if anyone has claimed a file and can no longer work on it please do let us know
The next step is reviewing and merging PRs. Help is very welcome if anybody is up for “trying out a PR and making sure the colors still look correct (or correct enough, where maybe we made changes)“
@dryanpress raised the topic of skinning adminadmin (and super admin) colour schemes, as there are some custom properties for body.admin-color-ectoplasm already in custom-properties.css. We would probably create a couple of colour schemes at a later stage, for testing & demonstration purposes
@dryanpress outlined the final todo list for the project:
- Merge all remaining files
- Look for duplication and opportunities for property consolidation
- Final team review
- Merge proposal write-ups
@ryelle added that, before the final team review step, discussion will be needed about what to consolidate and how, for example rgba and box-shadow values
@ryelle added that, as there are several PRs now merged, anybody interested could start generating some ideas for these next steps right now
@dryanpress asked if we are still on target for an --experimental release in 5.9 which @ryelle confirmed we have good momentum for
@ryelle observed that there are other places outside of CSS files where CSS is used, for example php and js files, which also need to be reviewed. @dryanpress offered to add this and the other tasks (mentioned above) to the planning document
@CodeXplorer admitted to wanting to help but feeling lost, to which @dryanpress provided a few notes of the current state of the project
@danfarrow had quickly calculated there are now 127 custom properties in custom-properties.css. @robertg added that this isn’t including the 225 (approx) in his PR

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@danfarrow shared An Interactive Guide to Keyframe Animations
@dryanpress shared another great post from the same site Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS

Thanks everybody!

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