Monday, January 11, 2016

The layout team is a long-term team that owns the layout code in blink.

See https://www.chromium.org/blink/layout-team for more information. Updates since last meeting (on Monday, January 4th): Scrolling (skobes, szager) [crbug.com/417782]

• Launched smooth scrolling! Top user request for year and one of our oldest open feature requests. Congratulations! [skobes]

• Swamped with smooth scrolling issues. [skobes]

• Biggest issue is we can't tell wheel scrolling form trackpad scrolling on windows, might end up enabling smooth scrolling for trackpads too. [skobes] CSS Flexbox (cbiesinger) [crbug.com/426898]

• The behavior changes in December caused a number of problems on high profile websites. A lot of triage and bug fixing to follow. CSS Multi-column (mstensho) [crbug.com/334335]

• Bug fixing for nested multicol and print support. CSS Houdini (ikilpatrick)

• Plan to send intent to implement for CSS Paint this week.

• Spec work; draft of css custom layout api in time for houdini meeting in Sydney at the end of the month.

• Meeting with MS and Apple in Seattle last week, very productive in terms of getting on the same page with regards to custom layout and suggesting something that all rendering engines can support. Add API for layout (leviw, pilgrim, ojan) [crbug.com/495288]

• Wrapping up API around inline layout. Intersection Observer (szager, mpb) [crbug.com/540528]

• Enabled on trunk, work continues. Text (eae, drott, kojii)

• Tracking down AAT font slowness on mac. Looks like we have a great patch that will improve it by at least an order of magnitude. We had a couple of issues with 16s rendering for a simple page. Due to AAT artificial fallback slowness, going through the fallback path up to five times unnecessarily. (drott)

• Emoji segmentation, assisting fallback for emoji and punctuation. Initial approach didn't quite work as expected due to complex cases, have a new implementation that looks better and solves all the known cases. (drott) HTML Tables (dgrogan)

• We had an artificial limit for row-span, increased it to match the FF artificial limit in response to developer bug reports. Logistics:

• This is the last layout team meeting for jchaffraix as he is leaving the team and blink as of the end of this week. Thanks for all your work on Blink over the years Julien and best of luck on your next projects.

• cbiesinger in Tokyo until Jan 20.

• eae, leviw in Tokyo next week.