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Monday, June 22, 2015

Updates since last meeting (on Tuesday, June 16th):

Scrolling (skobes, szager) [crbug.com/417782]

CSS Flexbox (cbiesinger) [crbug.com/426898]

investigation. Handling of form controls (like calendar picker) is

problematic.

CSS Grid Layout (svillar) [crbug.com/79180]

Region-based multi-column support (mstensho) [crbug.com/334335]

print.

Add API for layout (leviw, pilgrim) [crbug.com/495288]

down and solve the performance problems assoscaited with it (turns

out it was caused by the overhead of extra non-inlined constructors/

deconstructors). (pilgrim)

Isolate core/fetch (japhet) [crbug.com/458222]

grained separation per resource type. I.e css resource handling

specific logic could be moved to the css directory.

Text (eae, drott, kojii)

it to be removed entierly once the simple path is removed. Trying to

figure out exactly how it is used and where in order to break the

dependency. (drott)

harfbuzz in unofficial builds. (kojii)

looks very good, will try to land this week. (eae)

Layout Bugs:

We currently have 1581 open bugs for the Cr-Layout label, down from 1592

last week.

We need to get the number of bugs down so from now on each weekly update

will include the number of bugs for each category and the delta from the

week before.

Logistics: