Status of dropped-during-experimental-phase elements
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Description
It's quite often that CSS proposals changes, and experimental elements disappear or get replaced.
For example, motion was dropped in favor of offset: https://github.com/mdn/data/issues/314
I also noticed both block-overflow and overflow-block exists in https://github.com/mdn/data/blob/master/css/properties.json. The current spec is using overflow-block, so I guess block-overflow was dropped in favor of it.
Can these properties be removed from the data? If not, I think currently there is no good status for them. Both deprecated and obsolete indicate the property was once supported in the browser.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the block-overflow and overflow-block entries in css/properties.json, then compare them with the linked MDN specification and the related mdn/data#314 issue. Determine how dropped or replaced experimental properties should be represented; the work is done when these entries consistently reflect the project’s chosen status or removal policy.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- css
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100