The Script Comparison table has been rewritten to list items by language, and significantly expanded (languages and data). If you want to compare the characteristics of various orthographies, go to:
r12a.github.io/scripts/featu…
‘Why is CSS… the way it is?’, in which @svgeesus goes into early CSS features that got in the way later on, small improvements that were made, oversights in the review phase and what's to come
increment.com/frontend/ask-a…
Updated tests show that support for strict, loose & normal CSS settings for Japanese & Chinese linebreaks are now interoperably supported by the 3 major browser engines.
w3c.github.io/i18n-tests/res…
So, after #CSS Sizing Level 3 which let a paragraph be sized as if it were a float, Level 4 will allow a float to be sized as a paragraph. And it will solve another hard problem: link the height of a box to its width (aspect ratio).
CSS has different ways to size boxes. Paragraphs are as wide as their container, floats are as wide as their content. To get a paragraph no wider than its content, you can make it a float or a table. But that has side-effects
The @csswg has published "CSS Box Sizing Module - Level 4" as first public working draft. This module extends the #CSS sizing properties.
drafts.csswg.org/css-sizing-…
Introduction to Web Accessibility *free* online course from @thew3cx on @edXOnline
extended to September 2020. (no more extensions planned:) Learn more from blog post:
w3.org/blog/2019/12/free-onl…
The @w3ctag is looking at crafting recommendations on how web APIs should be feature detectable from JS, and we need the input from the web community!
Helps us find the different ways it is done today and pros and cons - and pls share any other feedback!
github.com/w3ctag/design-pri…