Monday, October 12, 2015
Updates since last meeting (on Monday, October 5th): Scrolling (skobes, szager) [crbug.com/417782]
- Misc root layer scrolling fixes. (skobes)
- Plan to start working on smooth scrolling this week. (skobes) CSS Flexbox (cbiesinger) [crbug.com/426898]
- Fixed height calculation to consider tallest column.
- FIxed handling of minimum for fill available. CSS Grid Layout (svillar, jfernandez, rego) [crbug.com/79180]
- No updates since last week. Region-based multi-column support (mstensho) [crbug.com/334335]
- Reworked column rebalancing.
- Fix handling for block pagination struts.
- Changes to break handling. Add API for layout (leviw, pilgrim, ojan) [crbug.com/495288]
- API fixes fot SVG text chunk handling. (pilgrim) Text (eae, drott, kojii)
- Fixed further selection painting bugs. (eae)
- Fixed measurement for RTL list-markers where we reversed the text twice causing incorrect ordering and metrics. (eae)
- Continued work on shaper driven segmentation, will start to land patches upstream this week. (drott)
- Unprefixed CSS Writing Modes landed, working on some follow up fixes. (kojii)
- Trying to better integrate CSS text code path with SVG text code path for vertical flow. (kojii)
- Cleaning up tests in CSS WG and specs for coming CR. (kojii) Misc:
- drougan started on his first bug, getting familiar with the Blink code base.
- drott hit size and encoding limits in Skia test infra, working with them to resolve it.
- Change in review for list marker spacing. (wkorman)
- Lots of tracing, test case fiddling, and reading of code for WebViewImpl::layout xploring whether there are further layout/paint optimizations we can make. (wkorman)
- Continuing work on documentation (deep dived into reflection to understand the design - https://codereview.chromium.org/1391943005 + more PaintLayer documentation). (jchaffraix)
- Mostly done documenting important objects (hopefully I could finish these this week), after that is deep diving into features (transform, paint invalidation, baselines...). (jchaffraix) Logistics:
- eae & leviw in Helsinki to work with drott until Thursday.
- cbisinger on vacation this Monday.
- drougan back from recruiting trip.