The @w3c @csswg face-to-face meeting in #Berlin 🇩🇪 starts today with the CSS #Houdini Task Force github.com/w3c/css-houdini-d…

The name #CSS Houdini refers to the black-box magic 🧙‍♀️that CSS brings to the Web: browsers do lots of amazing work, but leave little for devs to intervene. Houdini aims at “developing features that explain the «magic» of Styling and Layout on the web” github.com/w3c/css-houdini-d…

@philwalton published a great intro on the scope and goals of the work in @SmashinMagazine a couple of years ago smashingmagazine.com/2016/03…

In a nutshell, #CSS Houdini will let you build polyfills for CSS and experiment with crafting new CSS properties or values ⚗️ (which can then be fed into the standardization process, per the Extensible Web Manifesto github.com/extensibleweb/man… )