- From: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:17:03 -0400
- To: 'Håkon Wium Lie' <howcome@opera.com>, "'David Young'" <dyoung@pobox.com>
- Cc: whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, 'Cameron McCormack' <cam@mcc.id.au>
David Young wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone is developing web standards and prototypes > for web layout using the Knuth and Plass algorithm? It seems > like responsive designs could be expressed more simply in a > boxes-glue-penalties frame, and responsive layout for JavaScript, CSS, > and other things that you put in <pre>, now, would be tractable with the > right HTML/CSS primitives. If you have something like this underway, > please get in touch. On Wednesday, April 08, 2015 6:56 AM Håkon Wium Lie replied: [...] However, it seems you're not primarily thinking of line-breaking, but box stacking on a more general basis? -------- I have discussed such things over the years with the SVG Working Group, thinking that content like geographical information (like words or numbers) being drawn to and repelled by associated geometric features (like lakes or country boundaries) would make a lot of sense in terms of scaling of such content. SVG, has for now, relied on the simpler CSS box model, though models that use simple physics are now more computationally feasible. Here's a relatively recent excursion into the domain of non rectilinear layout: http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/TGW2014/RectilinearMold2.html Cheers David
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