On the eve of HTML Web Components, and of stronger than ever Responsive Design requirements, the need for Element Media Queries is becoming very visible. This blog post will try to make a case for a JavaScript prollyfill and gives some background on why the :min-width pseudo-class is so difficult to implement.

Back in early 2010, I made a lightening talk on how I thought a new kind of innovation process started to drive the web forward. Today, I think this model is becoming more and more the predominant model of evolution of web standards.

I’m proposing to add ‘rpx’ aka the ‘Responsive Pixel Unit’ to later revisions of CSS Values and Units. It’s value is computed as follow: (1rem) / (the default font size settings of the browser).

There’s no way to make designs responsive to ambient light variations in CSS today. This is strange, and I think it should change…

Many subjects are being discussed in the CSS Working Group. So many subjects, in fact, that you can't get involved in all of them. However, some are more critical to the future of the CSS language than others. And I truly believe that the current css-variables discussion is one of them.