csswg-drafts VS caniuse

Compare csswg-drafts vs caniuse and see what are their differences.

caniuse

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csswg-drafts

Posts with mentions or reviews of csswg-drafts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-23.
  • Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout – WebKit
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2024
    For more background, and some detailed discussion of the opposite argument ("display: masonry" over "display:grid"+"grid-template-rows: masonry") see https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9041
  • Chrome Dev: High Definition CSS Color Guide
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    The tracking issue: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/8659

    As noted there, okHSL/HSV keeps the perceptual uniformity by removing some peaks beyond the geometric limit of HSL/HSV, and it is unclear whether it is what users do expect or not.

  • Announcing Winduum 1.0 - Framework agnostic component library for TailwindCSS
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Feb 2024
    The idea is that you should be able to set accent color via accent-color CSS property. It is discussed that there should be access to the color value of this property, e.g. via AccentColor or AccentColorText.
  • Learn CSS Layout the Pedantic Way
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
    What do you mean by "official documentation"? The specification [1]? MDN [2]?

    [1] https://drafts.csswg.org/

    [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

    The former is not meant as a learning resource for new web devs and the latter usually has information about the "baseline" support ond browser compatibility tables.

  • CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
    The link corresponding to the actual submission title (“CSS WG resolved to officially work on native custom functions and mixins”):

    https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment...

    > RESOLVED: Start ED of css-mixins for CSS Custom Functions and Mixins

  • Weird things engineers believe about Web development
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jan 2024
    Recently I was reading the Learn CSS the pedantic way book and the definition for inline boxes did not match the way that anonymous block boxes were generated when an inline-level element had a block-level element as its child. So I went looking elsewhere for a more appropriate definition for that case and found this issue on standards: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1477 It was really interesting to know that I was not the only one confused. My question was: Does the inline-box generated by the inline-level element contains the box generated by the block-level child or there wasn't an inline-box that was a parent of them all but there were 2 siblings inline-level boxes of the block-level box that were wrapped in another anonymous block boxes? Reading that issue I got to know the concept of fragments, which I did not know browsers had. But the issue seems to suggest that the box tree for this case should have the inline-box as being a parent of the block-box. Which led me to another question, in that case, if I apply a border to the parent inline-level element, shouldn't it apply to the overall box that is generated (it does not)? The answer is that borders between block-boxes and inline-level boxes should not intersect but that is really difficult to derive from reading the standards alone. Anyway it was headache-inducing trying to learn the box-model pedantically :)
  • CSS Is Fun Again
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Dec 2023
    With all the recent CSS improvements I still miss the possibility to have working transition to "height:auto". The issue [1] on csswg-drafts is the most upvoted one. At least we can now use css grid and track sizes transitions, but it's far from intuitive, transition for "height:auto" should just work.

    [1]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/626

  • Proposed "au" unit for CSS provides for styling on an astronomical scale
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Dec 2023
  • The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching with Light-Dark()
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Oct 2023
    Masonry isn’t ready to be shipped as there are still quite a few open spec issues [^1] that need to be resolved first.

    [^1]: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...

  • CSS Solves Auto-Expanding Textareas
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Sep 2023
    the irc log is here: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7542#issuecomment...

    i had the same reaction, it seems like a very weird syntax. but after reading the discussion i get it: you're telling a form field to behave like a normal html element, instead of behaving like a form field.

caniuse

Posts with mentions or reviews of caniuse. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-05.
  • Time-Based CSS Animations
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2024
    The article uses custom css @properties which are awesome and have 88% browser support [1].

    One thing to watch out for is differences in how browsers handle setting the fallback initial-value. Chrome will use initial-value if CSS variable is undefined OR set to an invalid value. Firefox will only use initial-value if the variable is undefined. For most projects, this won't be an issue, but for a recent project, I ended up needing to use javascript to set default values in Firefox to iron out the inconsistency between browser implementations.

    [1] https://caniuse.com/?search=%40property

  • CSS Text Box Trim
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2024
    Safari is the only browser that doesn't support extending HTML element

    https://caniuse.com/?search=Custom%20Elements

  • JavaScript is not single-threaded
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024
    You forgot to mention (Web)Workers. This is explicit creation, management, and communication with additional threads within JavaScript. What's more, they've been around in JavaScript longer than the V8 engine has even existed!

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers...

    https://caniuse.com/?search=webworkers

  • Show HN: Render audio to HTML canvas using WebGPU
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2024
  • Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2024
    Do you happen to know where can I check out the cutoff version for each browser? https://caniuse.com/?search=wasm doesn't have it (or other things like WasmGC for that matter)
  • Le saviez-vous ? :focus :focus-within :focus-visible
    1 project | dev.to | 12 Apr 2024
  • 10 Websites Every Web Developer Should Bookmark
    2 projects | dev.to | 30 Mar 2024
    (https://caniuse.com/) A handy tool for checking the browser compatibility of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features. Can I Use provides up-to-date support tables for various web technologies across different browsers.
  • SASS is dead? CSS vs SASS 2024
    1 project | dev.to | 23 Mar 2024
    Caniuse
  • Free Resources Every Web Developer Should Know About
    15 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Can I Use (https://caniuse.com/)
  • Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Mar 2024
    > Is it though?

    In my experience it's the buggiest browser out of the big three, and is often missing basic features like e.g.:

    https://caniuse.com/?search=opus

    Supported in Firefox for *12 years* now, in Chrome for 10, still no support in Safari.

    They only "support" Opus audio in their special snowflake '.caf' container, which is super buggy and the last time I checked no open source program could even generate Opus '.caf' files that could be played by Safari on all Apple platforms. I ended up writing a custom converter which takes a standard '.opus' file and remuxes it on-the-fly (I only store '.opus' files on my server) into Safari-compatible '.caf' files, taking special care to massage it so that it avoids all of their demuxer/decoder bugs. You shouldn't have to do this to have cross-browser high quality audio!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing csswg-drafts and caniuse you can also consider the following projects:

Modernizr - Modernizr is a JavaScript library that detects HTML5 and CSS3 features in the user’s browser.

browserslist - 🦔 Share target browsers between different front-end tools, like Autoprefixer, Stylelint and babel-preset-env

open-props - CSS custom properties to help accelerate adaptive and consistent design.

caniemail - Can I email… Support tables for HTML and CSS in emails.

WHATWG HTML Standard - HTML Standard

postcss-preset-env - Convert modern CSS into something browsers understand

Rotativa - Rotativa, /rota'tiva/. Make Pdf from Asp.Net MVC. Available on Nuget https://www.nuget.org/packages/Rotativa

modern-css-reset - A bare-bones CSS reset for modern web development.

rellax - Lightweight, vanilla javascript parallax library

modern-normalize - 🐒 Normalize browsers' default style

container-query-polyfill - A polyfill for CSS Container Queries

Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine