Hi Ryosuke, I don't have time at the moment. But I remain interested in WebKit and am reading the emails as much as possible. I am thinking I'll have more time this summer for WebKit.
Thanks for following up. I have given the issue considerable thought. Not practical for me at the moment. enjoy, Karen On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:45:39PM -0700, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > Hi Karen, > > Have you decided whether you can maintain the CSS variables in WebKit or > not? As far as I checked, I didn't find any patches posted or committed by > you on Bugzilla or on Trac. > > We have a contributor's meeting coming up in Thursday, and I would like to > know whether we can proceed to remove the feature from the trunk for the > time being. > > - R. Niwa > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Karen Shaeffer > <shaef...@neuralscape.com>wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 05:40:33PM -0700, Ryosuke Niwa wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Jon Rimmer <jon.rim...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > As well as being in Chrome, custom property support is also being > > > > developed by Mozilla[4]. It is an actively edited W3C spec that is > > expected > > > > to reach Last Call status soon[5]. Given that situation, removing it > > from > > > > WebKit seems a very negative step. If it is removed and remains > > > > unimplemented in Safari and other WebKit browsers, then they will > > continue > > > > to fall behind competing layout engines. If it is removed now and must > > be > > > > resurrected at a later date, then the total cost is likely to be > > greater > > > > than making the effort to turn it on and take ownership of it *now*. > > > > > > > > > > I definitely see a value in keeping the feature. However, there is a > > > practical problem of someone having to maintain the code. Now that all > > > contributors who have previously worked on this feature has left to work > > on > > > Blink, I don't see who can be maintaining this code in WebKit. Are you > > > volunteering to maintain the code? If not, then who is? > > > > > > Not having this feature will be unfortunate and we might need to add it > > > back in the future, but that's much better than leaving unmaintained code > > > in our codebase. > > > > > > - R. Niwa > > > > Hi Niwa, > > I am willing to consider if it is practical for me to volunteer to > > maintain CSS > > variables for the webkit project. I'll need a week to make an informed > > decision, > > because I already have a full plate. But I am very interested in webkit, > > and this > > seems like a good time to step up to help the team. CSS variables does > > appear to > > be a worthy feature to maintain. If the team is willing to let this sit > > for a week, > > then that'll give me time to consider the issue properly. > > > > enjoy, > > Karen > > -- > > Karen Shaeffer > > Neuralscape, Mountain View, CA 94040 > > --- end quoted text --- -- Karen Shaeffer Neuralscape, Mountain View, CA 94040 _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
