On Monday 2016-08-29 17:21 -0700, L. David Baron wrote: > The W3C is proposing a revised charter for: > > Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Working Group > https://www.w3.org/Style/2016/css-2016.html > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Aug/0000.html > > Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments or objections through > this Friday, September 2. > > Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should > say as part of this charter review, or if you think we should > support or oppose it.
Nobody else replied, so I wrote the following (the deadline was extended to today): While the CSS WG continues to produce a number of important specifications, it has remained weak at getting good input from all of the relevant constituencies. This isn't necessarily something that the charter can fix, but I think it is worth pointing out. Some impromevents that would help with this are fixing some of the problems that scare participants away; for example, spending large meetings on very technical details that many people aren't interested in, thus scaring off people who have important things to say about bigger-picture issues but aren't interested in the most detailed discussions. (This may even be helped by improvements already present in this charter.) Some of the more speculative Houdini specs are not listed as deliverables in the charter, but it seems they should be. (CSS Layout API, Box Tree API, and maybe also CSS Parser API and Font Metrics API) I also *think* the group has agreed to rename the Motion Path spec (listed in the charter as motion-1) as part of merging its uses with some requirements for CSS Round Display; the charter should be updated to reflect the new name (which I don't currently recall). I'm also not entirely happy about the implication of the sentence "This avoids waiting for the next weekly call, if consensus can be determined before then." in the Decision Policy section; it seems to imply that the only value of asynchronous decision making is to make decisions faster. Asynchronous decision making can also help to include those who would be left out by a synchronous decision making process. I think it would be an improvement to just drop the sentence. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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