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WPD 655: CSS color-adjust property, async CSS via "preload" links (w/ polyfill), a searchable catalog of PostCSS plugins

  • Info

    • The CSS color-adjust property (spec) is coming to Firefox (available prefixed in Blink/WebKit), disc.
      • When printing a web page, browsers may adjust the colors of text and backgrounds in order to reduce ink usage (demo). The color-adjust property allows web pages to hint to the browser that the color choices of specified page elements should be respected.

  • Misc

    • recommends loading async CSS via "preload" links (polyfilled by loadCSS), source

  • Demos

  • Other

    • The Shadow DOM polyfill provides limited CSS encapsulation (turned off by default), source (via)
    • “PostCSS.parts”, a searchable catalog of PostCSS plugins, ’s site
    • Towards the first public draft of Web Payments API, ’s post
      • “Users will register payment apps with browsers. Through registration, browsers will know which payment methods are available on the user side. […] The API will not involve sharing the user’s list of registered payment methods with the merchant [website].”

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