Mozilla comments on CSS Working Group charter

Here are the comments that Mozilla just sent as part of the Advisory
Committee review of the CSS working group's charter.

-David

The reviewer's organization suggests changes to this Charter, but support
the proposal whether or not the changes are adopted.

Additional comments about the proposal:
   While we're not completely happy with the results of the group's
prioritization exercise, we recognize that it was based on a long
discussion within the group and don't want to reopen it at this stage of
the process.

However, there is one thing that I think ought to be changed:  the charter
currently says that "The Group jointly develops the CSS Fonts Module with
the SVG WG."  My understanding is that the initial rationale for this
joint development was because the SVG group had editing resources to
devote to the document and the CSS group did not.  However, the current
situation is the reverse:  the CSS group has an active editor for the
document, so it seems reasonable to revert to the original situation in
which the document was developed by the CSS working group.  Perhaps it
should now say "coordinates" instead of "jointly develops"?


The reviewer's organization intends to participate in these groups:
   - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) WG

The reviewer's organization:
   - intends to review drafts as they are published and send comments.
   - intends to develop experimental implementations and send experience
reports.
   - intends to develop products based on this work.
   - intends to apply this technology in our operations.


Comments about implementation schedule:
   Our implementation of CSS is ongoing and we expect it to continue to
be.

I think we've already implemented (in some cases with vendor prefixes)
most of CSS 2.1, selectors, media queries, color, namespaces, and
multi-column, and significant parts of borders and backgrounds,
transformations, the object model, and fonts.  We intend to continue work
on improving what we have already implemented, and on new features
especially in the borders and backgrounds, fonts, values and units,
transitions (and perhaps animations), the flexible box model, tables, and
text / text layout.

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L. David Baron                                 http://dbaron.org/
Mozilla Corporation                       http://www.mozilla.com/

Received on Thursday, 13 November 2008 00:53:42 UTC