[csswg-drafts] [meta] Creating an author-focused entry point summarizing the state of CSS (#4752)

AmeliaBR has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [meta] Creating an author-focused entry point summarizing the state of CSS ==
As requested by folks on the call, I'm starting a new issue to explore the tangent I started in #4715 (which is about publishing a new [Snapshot](https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/)) — can we make such a thing that is more useful for authors?

Specific aspects of a summary publication that have been brought up:

- a single-source quick guide to CSS properties (etc.) that's more than an [index](https://drafts.csswg.org/indexes/) where you need to click through for any details

- information about both spec stability and implementation status, again as a quick guide for authors

- obvious milestones / names to refer to new CSS & get people excited about the features that are now available

This doesn't need to happen in the Snapshot note. It doesn't even need to happen in a traditional W3C Technical Report format. When I mentioned the snapshots on CSS-Tricks as the closest thing the working group has to an overarching “CSS4”, Chris Coyier's response was:

> If it were me, I’d hire a content strategist and a designer, and get them going on a microsite or landing page that delivers with crystal clarity what “CSS2019” is. I could get behind that. The snapshot landing page as-is is too dry.

Maybe it would be better to start from something like the working group website's [“current work” page](https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work), which is also a great resource/overview that isn't well known.  Or work with MDN folks to build something on their platform.

Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4752 using your GitHub account

Received on Thursday, 6 February 2020 01:34:31 UTC