Monday, August 10, 2015
Updates since last meeting (on Monday, August 3rd):
Scrolling (skobes, szager) [crbug.com/
- Fixed setPageSclaeFactor and anchor root layer scrolling. (skobes)
- Turned on scroll restoration tests for root layer scrolling. These tests ensure that scroll positions are correctly restored on history navigation. (skobes)
- A Samsung contributor has agreed to help with custom scrollbar work.
- Containing work cleaning up DepricatedPaintLayerScrollableArea in an
effort to have sane scroll bounds for the root layer. (szager)
CSS Flexbox (cbiesinger) [crbug.com/
426898 ] - Helped szager with a flexbox scrollbar bug that triggered unspeced and untested behavior.
- Sent intent to ship and intent two unprefix and will follow up on those this week. The intent to unprefix looks ready to go ahead with.
- Had meeting with tabatkins about absolute position for flex items.
- Flexbox bug triage.
CSS Grid Layout (svillar) [crbug.com/
79180 ] - Fixed bug where grid containers reported the wrong preferred width.
Region-based multi-column support (mstensho)
[crbug.com/
334335 ] - First patch for nested multicol is just around the corner.
- Blocked on reviews for multicol improvements.
Add API for layout (leviw, pilgrim, ojan)
[crbug.com/
495288 ] - Successfully posted several API patches after help from Levi. Converted several more bits of line box and descendants to use the new line layout API. Nothing broken. yay! (pilgrim)
- Some weird edge cases and debugging code that relies on printing out layout objects. Ongoing discussion. (pilgrim) Text (eae, drott, kojii)
- Follow up from text workshop in Helsinki, Behdad and Drott working on
optimizing the Blink/
HarfBuzz integration. - Fixed space normalization bug where cr/
lf characters where incorrectly collapsed. (eae) - Debugging several crashers in line layout. (eae) Logistics:
- drott on vacation until Friday.