Issue 169
Browser updates, shiny new CSS proposals, web typography, designing for the Apple Watch
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Issue 169
I'm at W3C TPAC this week, at the CSS Working Group meeting for two days and then various other things of interest, and hopefully getting some time to work on my specs. I also presented at the W3C Developer Meetup last night, my slides are here.
In related news, last Friday Fronteers voted to become a W3C Member and to hire me as their representative. I'll write more on this soon, once all the details are sorted out, but I am very honoured that they have placed this trust in me, and I hope it will help to amplify the efforts I am already making.
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Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News
Firefox 63 ships today and has a whole host of neat stuff for CSS Layout, including the first shipping implementation of gap, column-gap and row-gap in Flexbox.
Fresh from the CSS Working Group meeting that I am sat in while writing this, a renaming of the ar unit for grid tracks to tr (meaning transfer ratio). This is linked to a proposal for a more general aspect ratio unit in CSS, which is a subject I will write more about I'm sure!
The EdgeHTML 18 update includes further progress on CSS Masking.
Learn
A nice article based on a chapter from the book Better Web Typography for a Better Web by Matej Latin.
An article on one of the use cases for flexbox, to create a simple one line form.
Some useful information for anyone designing websites for the Apple Watch.
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