Karl Dubost: [worklog] Edition 027. Tracking protection and a week of boxes.

Вторник, 19 Июля 2016 г. 04:00 + в цитатник

Tracking protection is an interesting beast. A feature to help users but users think the site is broken. I guess it's something similar to habits. If you put a mask on your face and you have forgotten about it, you may be surprised that people do not want to talk to you.

Webcompat Life

Progress this week:

Today: 2016-07-19T11:32:54.030052
316 open issues
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needsinfo       5
needsdiagnosis  76
needscontact    20
contactready    41
sitewait        168
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Webcompat issues

(a selection of some of the bugs worked on this week).

issue with MLB site displaying the plays.
Interesting CSS issue about display:table and max-height having a different behavior in Chrome and Firefox, maybe something related to a known issue. To be confirmed.
Enabling Tracking Protection in Firefox creates a lot of issues, which are not completely understood by users. We are starting to have a set of Web Compatibility reports because the site breaks or crashes when tracking protection is enabled. Usually, the JavaScript code of the site didn't take into account that some people might want to block some of the page assets, and this creates unintended consequences. There is probably something around UX to improve here. So users really understand their choices.

WebCompat.com dev

Started to look at issue 722

Reading List

CSS Containment.

the contain property, which indicates that the element’s subtree is independent of the rest of the page.

If I understand, this seems like something which would answer many of the complaints we hear from Web developers about CSS isolation. Specifically the layout term: contain: layout.

This value turns on layout containment for the element. This ensures that the containing element is totally opaque for layout purposes; nothing outside can affect its internal layout, and vice versa.

Implemented in Blink. I didn't find an issue on WebKit project (Safari). I didn't find a bug in Mozilla Bugzilla either. Can I use?. Probably no.