Monday, August 3, 2015

Thanks for running the show last week jsbell. Now back to our regularly

scheduled programming.

Updates since last meeting (on Monday, July 27th):

Scrolling (skobes, szager) [crbug.com/417782]

• Fixed under-painting issue on android. (skobes)

• Fixed a regression causing double scrollbars caused a previous bug

fix. (skobes)

• Identified that scrollable elements with animated gifs will do a

full re-layout even if it's composited. (skobes)

• Fixed a hairy flexbox scrollbar bug where the size of the scrollbar

wasn't taken into account when computing the flexed size. (szager)

• Containing work cleaning up DepricatedPaintLayerScrollableArea in an

effort to have sane scroll bounds for the root layer. (szager)

CSS Flexbox (cbiesinger) [crbug.com/426898]

• Had a meeting with CSS flexbox spec authors last week and leared that

some areas of the spec that I've been working on implementing might

change further. Will follow up this week.

• Triaged a bunch of flexbox bugs.

• Up-streaming flexbox tests have proven harder than expected, might

take a week or two to resolve.

CSS Grid Layout (svillar) [crbug.com/79180]

• cbiesinger have been helping with reviews.

Region-based multi-column support (mstensho) [crbug.com/334335]

• Doing a lot of cleanup and bug fixing work.

• Containing working on support for nested columns, progressing nicely

but nothing landed yet.

Add API for layout (leviw, pilgrim, ojan) [crbug.com/495288]

• Working on moving layout box and descendants over to use the API.

(pilgrim)

Isolate core/fetch (japhet) [crbug.com/458222]

• No update.

Text (eae, drott, kojii)

• Text workshop in Helsinki, Behdad and Drott working on optimizing the

Blink/HarfBuzz integration.

• Completed tests for styling and selection, found a few issues as a

result and have been working on fixing those. (drott)

• Unicode range matching is next. (drott)

Misc:

• Continuing to talk to people about position observer, got lots of

feedback, mostly positive. (slighgtlyoff)

Logistics:

• kojii on vacation this week.

• drott on vacation this Wednesday until next Friday.

• cbiesinger in SF this week.