How Standards Work
someone has an idea
It is a standard
something happens?
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
You can use a lot of those,
but they aren't standard.
It's a bad idea to use them in a way that harms you or the standard.
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
N Stages of Standardocity ™
someone submits an idea
It is a standard
"ES2017"
Wait... so you have to talk about it for a year?
Minimum 2.
Historically N.
2004
and if you keep digging...
:has
article:has(.thumbnail) { .... }
in specs already in 1998
implemented in jQuery because of that
Now in selectors level 4.. but not for CSS
20 years and counting
"HTML 5"
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a decade before 'complete'
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still incomplete
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individual bits have their own histories, many longer
Multiline strings:
Proposed 2006
All major browsers shipping 2015