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📄 💭 👀 From WebKit to OSPKit: an alternate reality to keep working with CSS Regions 👀 💭 📄

A new blog post! Which is mostly a transcription of the radio interview @simoon and i did with OSP (http://osp.kitchen) last year. This is a special edit documenting OSP's story around the CSS Regions, a never widely implemented CSS property that they still use with these days.

http://blog.osp.kitchen/residency/from-webkit-to-ospkit.html

"One of the things is that it creates a bit of an alternate reality. Because you're suddenly living in your own browser. The path is split in two. And the current status of web-to-print goes further and new things are happening there. But in the world of this OSPKit browser, things are a bit stuck in time. And okey you have this work around that allows you to use a magic property that you want to keep close to yourself. But then you have to live in your own reality, that is a bit outside of the evolution and the tendency of the rest of the designer practice in web-to-print specifically."

-- Quote by @doriane

cc @ameliedumont @kurbitur @smag @Ludi

#shouldertoshoulder #css #html2print #webtoprint #floss #design #collectivepractices

Diagram made with Graphviz with three oval shapes:

- OSP
- CSS Regions
- W3C

All the oval shapes are connected to each other with arrows and question marks are placed next to each connection. The three shapes are connected in all possible ways, also to themselves.

"In the middle of 10 years of web-to-print practices and on the crossing of different ways of working with HTML and CSS to make printed matter, including html2print, OSPKit, CTRL+P and Paged.js, there is a lot of material lingering around in the OSP git repositories. It's hard to find time for digestion when being in the middle of commissioned work, projects and other jobs. As satellite OSP member and OSP resident, we [Alex Leray and me] found some time for it."

http://blog.osp.kitchen/residency/a-practice-of-boilerplates.html

We published a new post on the OSP blog: html2print as a practice of boilerplates ✨

With a listing of many many web-to-print repositories that emerged from the 10 years of web-to-print practices of OSP, plus a conversation around the term "boilerplate".

#floss #collectivepractices #design #publishing #shouldertoshoulder

While being a resident at #osp in Brussels until the end of June, I will spend time to think and write about F/LOSS and collective design practices, with a specific focus on (inter-)dependency relations between practice, tools and working conditions and how they have an impact on these practices.

And voilà 🌬️, I wrote a first post on the osp blog to formulate the direction of this research:

http://blog.osp.kitchen/news/shoulder-to-shoulder.html

#floss #collectivepractices #design #publishing #shouldertoshoulder