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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon WICG

Should we archive this repo?

Open marcoscaceres opened this issue 5 years ago • 10 comments

Hi y'all... given that lack of activity in over a year, it might be time to concede defeat on this and "archive" this incubation.

Although we've not managed to solve this exactly problem on the Web, would it be fair to say that we have a set of capabilities on the web that are helping solve some the same problems (e.g., CSS grid and sub-grid)?

What do you all think? Or should we try to keep going? We can always un-archive later.

cc @WICG/chairs

marcoscaceres avatar Dec 12 '19 23:12 marcoscaceres

yeah, I'd archive it, at least for now.

ZeeCoder avatar Dec 13 '19 00:12 ZeeCoder

I've been in quite a few conversations with browser folks about Container Queries recently. They are still in high demand and people still very much want them.

I think before closing, it'd be nice to have an official postmortem post on where we're at on this.

Something like:

Accomplishments

  • Use cases documented https://wicg.github.io/cq-usecases/

Progress on features that were said to be blocking Container Queries:

  • [x] Auto-flow grid in 94% on caniuse
  • [x] Resize Observer in 72% on caniuse
  • [x] Containment on 74% on caniuse

Author sentiment

Still very much in high demand.

  • No. 1 requested feature on State of CSS 2019 https://2019.stateofcss.com/opinions/#missing-features

Browser sentiment

  • Chrome - ?
  • Edge - ?
  • Firefox - https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/118
  • Safari - ?

(It would be awesome if browsers could state their official position before departing)

davatron5000 avatar Dec 16 '19 21:12 davatron5000

That's great @davatron5000 - and really insightful. I know Mozilla's CSS standards folks are passionate about this, as are our dev rel folks. I'll see if I can push our folks internally for a formal position: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/118

I'd really like to hear from other folks here too, as @davatron5000 suggested.

marcoscaceres avatar Dec 17 '19 05:12 marcoscaceres

Agree with @davatron5000. If this repo isn't the best place for work on this to continue, that's fine, I just hope the work continues somewhere. This feature has remained in such demand from developers for so long now that talking about it has become a cliché.

Last I heard, folks at Moz and Chrome were actively looking at it, so I'm hopeful that's still the case. Thanks!

scottjehl avatar Dec 17 '19 15:12 scottjehl

Also, CSS-Tricks published an article recently talking about container queries https://css-tricks.com/the-origin-story-of-container-queries/.

maxnordlund avatar Dec 17 '19 19:12 maxnordlund

@cwilso or @yoavweiss, who might be good to talk to on Chromium/Blink side?

marcoscaceres avatar Dec 17 '19 23:12 marcoscaceres

/cc @stubbornella

yoavweiss avatar Dec 18 '19 07:12 yoavweiss

mmmmmmmm...... let's not just yet. Who knows what the new year will bring :)

bkardell avatar Dec 19 '19 22:12 bkardell

Given that this is now in CSS proper, we should archive this now. Discussion on further improvements to container queries should happen in the CSS WG.

marcoscaceres avatar Feb 09 '23 04:02 marcoscaceres

Congratulation to everyone involved here, I believe efforts like these moved the needle after a decade's persistence! :grin:

ZeeCoder avatar Feb 10 '23 08:02 ZeeCoder