Automatizing the Grid

My Igalia colleagues and me have extensively reviewed how to create grids and how to position items inside the grid using different CSS properties. So far everything was more or less static. We declare the sizes of our columns/rows or define a set of grid areas and that’s it. Well, actually there is room for automatic stuff, you can dynamically create new tracks just by adding items to positions outside the explicit grid....

May 10, 2016 · svillar

Grids everywhere!

Hi dear readers, it’s awesome to see people-really-excited (including our friends at Bloomberg) about CSS Grid Layout, specially after Rachel Andrew’s talk in CSSConf. I really believe CSS Grid Layout will be a revolution for web designers as it will help them to build amazing responsive web sites without having to add hacks all around. Me and my fellow Igalians keep working on adjusting the code to match the specification, polishing the code, adding new features and even drastically improving the performance of grid....

September 23, 2014 · svillar

Adventures in the Grid

Hi there, fellow readers. Today I’m starting a mini-series of posts to talk a little bit about the work I’ve been lately doing at Igalia around WebKit and Blink web engines. I’ve been involved in the implementation of a new standard called CSS Grid Layout in both engines. My mate rego has already talked about that, so take a look at his post if you need to know more about the basics....

March 31, 2014 · svillar

http://publicsuffix.org support coming to libsoup

I have the pleasure to frequently hack on libsoup as part of the great Igalia WebKit team. Many things are happening in libsoup but that’s a topic for some other upcoming post. Today I will talk about a new feature I landed just a few days ago and that will be shipped with the 2.40 release. I’m talking about the support for http://publicsuffix.org. What’s that? The public suffix list is a community driven initiative from Mozilla whose aim is to provide a trusted list of well known public domain suffixes, like for example: ....

June 20, 2012 · svillar