Houdini at TPAC

At the Paris meeting we decided to have a Houdini session only during the a plenary day meeting slot. I'm now wondering if we should try to have a more substantial meeting. If I remember, the position against a real meeting was that the specs would not have progressed much by then.

However, I think there was a huge benefit to the architectural discussions we had in Paris, especially for features like UI Workers. It was great to see what Google had prepared, and to begin to understand their goals and reasoning. I know at Apple we've spent time digesting the proposal and discussing how it maps to our requirements and architecture. I bet other browsers and developers have too.

For this reason I think it's going to be really useful to get together and continue the discussions. I think the Houdini topics, in their current state, benefit from face-to-face discussions much more than many of the regular CSS WG topics. I'm not suggesting the CSS WG topics are less important, just that they tend to be at an advanced stage with discussion mostly about edge cases. Meanwhile UI Workers, Custom Paint, Layout, Font APIS etc are rough proposals that we don't necessarily agree on yet.

What do people think? Is there a way we could book more Houdini time at TPAC? Is it too late for the people who were not planning on going to change? Could we take a day of the CSS meeting? A separate room?

Dean

Received on Saturday, 12 September 2015 20:56:35 UTC