CSS2022: How can we improve?

[SachaG]

Some relevant comments from the "how can we improve" question.

(All comments: https://gist.github.com/SachaG/5d78c795b2e21f1585dac33458290c5d )

• Respect prefers-color-scheme (light), and improve contrast of focus states for checkboxes.
• MDN links to explanations of features would be helpful.
• Don‘t use the matchup type of question.
• Buttons don't look like buttons
• Mark any skipped open-end questions as complete so I don't have to go back and write n/a :)
• Less Frameworks, more actual CSS. Also pay some respect to the standards body. Neither the W3C nor the CSSWG were listed as options for resources to learn CSS from.
• Indicate progress (x out of y or progress bar)
• The background and font color makes my eyes a bit dizzy
• Better outreach to represent more demographics and more transparency about what actually happens with the data once collected
• The radio buttons and checkboxes have to get tapped twice on a touch experience. As the CSS survey, I expect better.
• Use ranking instead of elimination tournament
• There are so many features listed that are basically not supported in browsers, so why are you asking about them?
• Prefer an option not to answer on some race, salary, disability
• Salary question is missing Prefer not to say option
• Maybe add a free form comment at the end of each section for general comments about the section. For example, I had no defined space to complain about css is js!
• I’d love a summary page of the answers I gave so I have a list of CSS properties and YouTube videos to go learn about!
• Ask about more common css, such as if you use float a lot still vs better layout techniques.
• Use less US-centric race and ethnicity categories
• Use same range for each salary level groups
• maybe it is fun to also ask for everybody's favourite CSS feature of that year
• there were some ui bugs. the padding kept squeezing the content between the radio buttons and the comment icon upon each item selection
• I don't know why the next button redirects me to the GitHub repository
• Light theme option
• With bad internet connections, my survey progress is lost and I have to start over. Would be better if progress is also saved locally.
• Gather information on survey respondents’ role and title at work, eg Designer vs Frontend Developer vs Manager/Director
• better font and color. Dark mode hurts my eyes. If there's a light mode, I didn't see it (not discoverable/accessible) when filling out the survey. And even though the font has serif, it's still hard to read. Too much animation on the page, disorienting, reminds me of 90s-era web sites (crazy colors, crazy animations).
• Carry the idea of comments completely on each possible answer.
• make your next page button links work, I got to the broken link pages by editing the url
• A combobox for the country input instead of a select. Separate "working" and "studying" time periods.
• Improve the checkbox. Its difficult to select.
• "Know of but can't/won't use because of compatibility concerns" as an option on the individual feature questions would be way better than one catch all near the end"
• auto-scroll on answer
• make labels of radios clickable please!
• Maybe less questions about the bleeding-edge proposed specs and more about normal every useful css features
• Add options for students in about me section
• spend some money in ad campaigns to get more people to participate. More results, more accurate numbers to real cases.
• send me a copy of the questions that I answered
• On clicking multiple times at a option, the box shrinks in width and breaks the answer line.
• You asked which properties I don’t use because of compatibility, but I can answer that better on the pages I’m answering about usage
• Adding a "save and finish later" option
• The Race & Ethnicity section only appeals to American people and disregards actual ethnicity.
• take into account that people use css non-professionally (it's not my job), so i want to point out that my company is not actually a company but a universit
• list Native American, Pacific Islander, or Indigenous Australian grouped is honestly disrespectful to all three cultures.
• Sign-in form had zero labeling: an empty text input with a blank button on the left; a blank button on the right. Labels would have helped me not have to use the dev tools to figure out what did what.
• Don't treat empty custom fields as unfilled answers, I need that 100% in every category lol
• Maybe a question about whether someone writes production CSS anymore? I haven't committed code to prod in over a decade, I went down more of the designer path.
• Didn't really understand why "Not in a company" wasn't an option; I'm a student, I work with CSS as a hobby (and a passion!)

[SachaG]

Some things addressed in the CSS 2023 edition:

• MDN links to explanations of features would be helpful.
  • Added Reading List
• Don‘t use the matchup type of question.
  • Replaced matchups with "top N" questions
• Less Frameworks, more actual CSS. Also pay some respect to the standards body. Neither the W3C nor the CSSWG were listed as options for resources to learn CSS from.
  • Survey is less library-focused overall; added CSSWG
• Indicate progress (x out of y or progress bar)
  • Added progress bar

[shhaine]

Visual summary: https://lookerstudio.google.com/c/reporting/8a8bdc30-d03d-4f60-b422-660dc3bf56b5/page/7DCUD