- From: Jonathan Snook <jonathan.snook@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:17:01 -0400
- To: Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
> It strikes me that all these methods, including Jonathan's, > Andrew's, and Advanced Layout Module, (and to some extent, Grid > Positioning) seek to create table-like structures. What they then > add, which display:table-cell lacks, is: > > 1. the ability to do rowspans and colspans (i.e. the equivalent of > using grid units for widths and heights [or edge positions]), > 2. the ability to have new rows specified without having a > display:table-row element, and > 3. the ability to move content to cells in a different order than > they appear in the source. The Matrix proposal also offers up another couple advantage: 4. The ability to overlap elements. 5. The ability to combine matrix, absolute, relative and static content all within the same container. I think these would be hard to extend within display:table-* -js
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