Monday, February 8, 2016
Updates since last meeting (on Monday, February 1st):
Scrolling (skobes, szager) [crbug.com/
- Basic implementation of scroll anchoring landed behind the --enable-blink-features=ScrollAnchoring flag. (skobes)
- Working on adding more test cases for scroll anchoring. (skobes)
- Adding about:flags entry so folks can try on mobile canary. (skobes)
CSS Flexbox (cbiesinger) [crbug.com/
426898 ] - Continued triage.
- Fixed main size calculation for overflow:auto.
CSS Grid Layout (svillar, jfernandez, rego, javif)
[crbug.com/
79180 ] (since last grid update in late December) - Fix auto track sizing with min-size:auto (svillar)
- Add support for repeat(auto-fill|auto-fit,) (svillar)
- Support for implicit grid before explicit grid (rego)
- Fix unknown named lines resolution (rego)
- Investigating issues with positioned items and RTL (rego)
- Layout tests refactoring (jfernandez)
- Investigating issues in orthogonal grids (jfernandez)
- Add "normal" for content alignment (jfernandez)
CSS Multi-column (mstensho) [crbug.com/
334335 ] - Working on cleaning up mapLocalToAncestor() in order to make it easier and cleaner to fix a multicol bug.
- Intent to ship discussions continues, we might be able to unprefix multicol real soon after all!
- Some work on the break-after, break-before and break-inside properties. More or less ready to file a CL, once the intentery gets resolved. CSS Houdini (ikilpatrick)
- Stay tuned for a separate blonk-wide update on Houdini progress.
Add API for layout (leviw, pilgrim, dgrogan)
[crbug.com/
495288 ] - Converted BlockPainter to new line layout API. (pilgrim)
- Convert last use of RootInlineBox to the API. (dgrogan)
- Shim AXLayoutObject uses of InlineBox->layoutObject(). (dgrogan)
CSS Containment (leviw) [crbug.com/
312978 ] - Discussions about containment at CSS Working Group meeting with
standard body and other browser vendors. (leviw)
Intersection Observer (szager, mpb)
[crbug.com/
540528 ] - Fixed handling of zero-sized target elements for observations. (szager)
- Fixed handling of cross-origin observations. (szager)
- Changed observers to use DOMHighResTimeStamp for notification time. (szager) Text (eae, drott, kojii)
- Meeting with the Android fonts team to discuss needs and possible integration going forward. (drott)1
- Working on resolving emoji and multi-locale issues on Android, some parts are tricky, some parts are easier. Will continue to work with a android fonts team after the Tokyo workshop. (drott)
- landing the remaining parts of SymbolsIterator/
EmojiSegmentation, until now where I am hitting this issue of having to address graphemes as a unit of fallback with Behdad first - as per my comment on the last CL in the series. (drott) - Working on font fallback for symbol/
emoji fonts on Android with bungman on the Skia team. (drott) HTML Tables (dgrogan) - No updates since last week. Misc
- Finished work to make LayoutUnit construction explicit. (leviw)
- Fixed weird broken zooming logic in offsetTop/
Left calls. (leviw)