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@lea.verou.meYup, CMYK isn't even the only exception. Once you consider print color spaces the sky is the limit, there are color spaces that model printing processes with 6+ colors. And color spaces for displays with more than three color emitters too. That’s why we went with an array of coords in Color.js!
@lea.verou.meOh interesting, which PR? That must have been one of the other editors, I’d remember it if I had added it lol! Yes, so many magic numbers! A lot of it color science is derived by experimenting with humans and interpolating, which doesn’t tend to produce the cleanest math…
@lea.verou.meFWIW every browser has that particular gap 😅
@lea.verou.meOh! I may have some passing familiarity with that spec 🙃
The naïve conversion is meant as a fallback when the color profile fails, so that content is displayable. device-cmyk() was never meant to be implemented via *just* the naïve algorithm (@svgees.us’s table of ΔEs + color checker explain why 😅)
@lea.verou.meWhat color profile does that use? device-cmyk() is meant to just send raw components to a CMYK device (eg a printer); without a color profile the naive sRGB conversion produces results that aren’t very useful (eg 100,0,0,0 becomes #00ffff, which is wildly outside the gamut of *any* CMYK printer)
@grrlscientist.bsky.socialReposted by @lea.verou.meDavid Sedaris on undecided voters
@lea.verou.meRelated: a way to post issue replies private to maintainers, so they can collaborate on a draft before making it public. The post date would be the publication one. This has come up a lot in cases where replies need deliberation/collaboration & maintainers have to collaborate elsewhere (e.g GDocs).
@lea.verou.me@cassidoo.co GitHub wishlist, cont'd:
A way to designate multiple people as issue authors. This comes up a lot, but most recently in the TPAC breakouts repo, where multiple people can chair a breakout, but only the one that submits can edit its details: github.com/w3c/tpac2026...
@michaelwarren.devReposted by @lea.verou.meWhat if there was a Web Components conference??
@stuffbreaker.bsky.social and I are teaming up to get a little more serious about the idea of getting one together.
We want to gather data on if there is interest in the community
Please fill out and share to anyone!
@rviscomi.devReposted by @lea.verou.meModern Web Guidance v0.0.192 is out. With it your coding agent now knows how to: • build SMS one-time-code forms that autofill (WebOTP) • make dark mode toggles that follow the OS • honor the OS text size setting • reduce INP and lazy-load video/audio • feature-detect CSS at-rules with @supports
@patrickbrosset.comReposted by @lea.verou.meLink Parameters is the thing that gives you the ability to style embedded external SVGs.
Something many have wanted to do for a long time!
If you want to show your support of this, give these 2 issues a thumbs-up and comment:
@rviscomi.devReposted by @lea.verou.meSee which features are missing (or not fully implemented) in specific browsers and go upvote/comment on their issues
Chrome: developer-signals.dev?browser=chro...
Edge: developer-signals.dev?browser=edge...
Firefox: developer-signals.dev?browser=fire...
Safari: developer-signals.dev?browser=safa...
@lea.verou.meCorrection: @janeori.propjockey.io posted an even earlier proposal for the same concept, 4 years before! I’ve now updated the data to include hers first:
@lea.verou.meThis allows creating declarations with variables etc that disappear entirely when invalid instead of becoming IACVT, paving the way for real block-level conditionals.
@lea.verou.meWow, I hadn't realized the CSS revert-rule keyword (a feature I originally proposed, albeit with a different syntax) is now Baseline, as of Sep 14! 😍
Only 2y4m from initial proposal to Baseline.
1y8m if you count from the WG resolution!
Full timeline: lea.verou.me/specs/#rever...
@lea.verou.meThank you! Didn’t you say that people are either non-monogamous or not? That’s what I was disagreeing with.
@github.comReposted by @lea.verou.meGitHub.com has fully moved off CSS-in-JS to CSS Modules, resulting in 55% less server-side render time and 25% faster component init.
https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/improving-site-performance-by-shipping-more-css/
@lea.verou.meAlso, prescriptive != descriptive monogamy. One can be non-monogamous on principle and monogamous in practice (which is basically the opposite of cheating 😅). It’s about freedom and empathy, not some intrinsic need for greater partner diversity (some people may well have that, but it’s orthogonal).
@lea.verou.meMononormativity works like any default you grew up inside: if exclusivity was presented to you as the only serious form of love, it takes real effort to even see it as a choice. That doesn't make people intrinsically monogamous or not. It makes major mindset shifts hard, which is a different claim.
@lea.verou.meHard disagree. I believe non-monogamy is closer to the human default than we think: pair-bonding is real, but strict lifelong exclusivity is a cultural institution with a history, not a biological imperative. Look at how much work society puts into enforcing it, and how often it fails anyway.
