Introduction to the CSS Working Group

Introduction to the CSS Working Group Rachel Andrew, CSS Print Workshop Prague 2020 Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

What is the W3C? Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) 25 years old on 1st October 2019 Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

“…create freely available and open standards that ensure that the Web remains open, accessible, and interoperable for everyone around the globe” Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Members Organizations become Members of the W3C Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Working Groups For example the CSS Working Group. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Accessibility Guidelines, Accessible Platform Architectures, Accessible Rich Internet Applications, Audio, Automotive, Browser Testing and Tools, CSS, Dataset Exchange, Decentralized Identifier, Devices and Sensors, Distributed Tracing, Education and Outreach, HTML, Immersive Web, Internationalization, JSONLD, Media, Pointer Events, Publishing, Second Screen, Service Workers, SVG, Timed Text, Verifiable Claims, Web Application Security, Web Applications, Web Authentication, Web Fonts, Web of Things, Web Payments, Web Performance, Web Platform, Web Real-Time Communications, WebAssembly Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Working Group members People who are employed by a member organization can be joined to any working group. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Invited Experts Not part of a member organization. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

The CSS Working Group Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

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Specification Process Working Draft Candidate Recommendation Proposed Recommendation W3C Recommendation Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Why do things take so long? Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

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Lack of funding for work on print specifications Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Web browsers and Paged Media support Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

It’s not just printing from the browser Web developers are using headless Chrome to generate PDF documents and running into the same issues. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

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Making Things Better Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Anyone can contribute to specifications You don’t need to be an Invited Expert or representative. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Everyone is allowed to contribute You don’t need permission, or to be qualified in some way. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Read and comment on specification issues https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

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Show use cases As with any software development, real use cases are valuable. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Contribute examples and diagrams to specifications Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

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Web Platform Tests Not just for the web. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

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Many people who work on CSS started by writing tests. Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Raising print-related bugs with browsers and print UAs Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Funding people to work on print-related specifications, testing, and implementations Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew

Any questions? Slides & resources https://noti.st/rachelandrew