Intent to Prototype: CSS functions

[Steinar H. Gunderson]

Contact emails:
se...@chromium.org

Explainer:
https://css.oddbird.net/sasslike/mixins-functions
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Je7kBKdBg3ZDfoSA6ezzkQfehWkV2uv14Vxn1UJc3QY/edit#heading=h.3fj2wo8vn37w

Specification: None

Summary:
User-defined functions in CSS, aka @function. Related to, but not the same
as, mixins. Let authors define custom functions that can do more-or-less
arbitrary manipulation (though not Turing-complete at this stage), and then
refer to them from CSS declaration lists similarly to how var() is
interpolated.

Blink component:
Blink>CSS

Initial public proposal
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9350#issuecomment-1939628591

TAG review:
None

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility:
There is not spec yet, so this is to try to get experience with
implementation and use. This means that initially, no browsers will
be compatible with each other, and this is not meant for the public web.

Gecko:
No signal

WebKit:
No signal

Web developers:
No signals

WebView application risks:
None

Debuggability:
We will need some kind of support from devtools eventually,
or functions will be very hard to debug.

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?
No

Flag name on chrome://flags:
CSSFunctions

Finch feature name:
None

Non-finch justification:
New feature, not suitable for A/B testing.

Requires code in //chrome?:
False

Estimated milestones:
We hope to get a rough prototype out in Q1.

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status:
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5179721933651968

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[Kevin Babbitt]

Is there a tracking bug for this feature?

Thanks
Kevin

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[Steinar H. Gunderson]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 04:59:25PM +0000, Kevin Babbitt wrote:
> Is there a tracking bug for this feature?

I created one, crbug.com/325504770.

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