Rego’s Everyday Life

Chrome 70 has just been released with an important change on how percentage row tracks and gutters work. You might need to update your site to avoid issues or breakages, more info at: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2018/08/10/changes-on-css-grid-layout-in-percentages-and-indefinite-height/

See: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-chrome-70/?linkId=58284450

It seems Apple is starting to work on Houdini CSS Paint API on WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190217

Next week many igalians will be on tour: https://www.igalia.com/2018/10/15/Conference-season-is-upon-us.html

Igalia will have an important representation during W3C TPAC in Lyon, and I’ll be giving a talk about CSS and how to contribute to its evolution on the W3C Developer Meetup: https://www.w3.org/2018/10/Meetup/

My first Firefox patch that actually has some code landed yesterday: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4e07d3243403 😀

The initial plan was just to modify some tests to match the spec, but fixing the bug itself wasn’t that complex after all. 😇

New profile picture from a nice shot by Guillaume Emont during the Web Engines Hackfest this week. 🎞️ Thank you! 😉

“CSS theoretically supports infinite precision” learning CSS the hard way at the Web Engines Hackfest https://drafts.csswg.org/css-values/#numeric-types

Heading to A Coruña for a new edition of the Web Engines Hackfest at Igalia headquarters. Getting ready for an amazing event and willing to meet all the incredible folks that are coming. 🙂

Let’s just import a few Mozilla tests from WPT related to flex/grid alignment and positioned children into Chromium… Finally most of them fail due 2 already known bugs and 3 new ones: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/1233555 😞

[css-grid] Starting in Chromium 69 you might get a warning if you use percentage rows in a grid container with indefinite height. Check if your site is affected in beta/canary and update it accordingly if needed. More about this topic in my last post https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2018/08/10/changes-on-css-grid-layout-in-percentages-and-indefinite-height/