Re: New values for Float property

Using hacky layout methods are sometimes the best choice available to Web designers when trying to target the most widely used Web browsers, and also trying to achieve a particular layout. You may disagree with the subjective design choices, but Salar's e-mail was about proposed values, not about existing limitations in desktop software. As long as we are talking about proposals, I think it is clear that www-style list IS the place to talk about replacements for hacky layout tools. That is why we discuss template layout, grid positioning, flexible box layout, display:table-cell, etc., which COULD be alternatives to them (once they are widely implemented).

On Nov 30, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Andrew Fedoniouk wrote:

> Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Salar <salarsoftwares@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> ... especially when float is *actually* used
>> typographically, not just as a hacky page layout tool.
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> Golden principle of constructive discussion: "Criticizing - propose".
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> What are alternatives to "float as a hacky page layout tool"
> in modern CSS and in foreseeable future?
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> Just for the note, this is style sheet of W3 front page:
> http://www.w3.org/2008/site/css/advanced
> Rhetoric question: is massive float use there
> a hacky page layout tool or not?
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> I mean that www-style list is not the place where phrases
> "float as a hacky layout tool" or "table as a hacky layout tool" make real sense. CSS has no alternatives to them, sorry.
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