RE: Box Reordering

This is a good argument for cutting it. It is true that any use case for box-ordinal-group applies just as well to divs or floats. In all these cases it I a baby step towards what XSLT does (and that is usually the direction we don't encourage for CSS). And all these cases are easily solved by script.

From: Brad Kemper [mailto:brad.kemper@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 7:19 AM
To: Alex Mogilevsky
Cc: James Robinson; Tab Atkins Jr.; www-style list
Subject: Re: Box Reordering

Why is reordering more important for flexbox than for table cells or inline-blocks or maybe even floated blocks? I understand wanting to limit the scope, but I don't see why flexboxes should be the corner of CSS to have this super-feature, instead of in other display/flow models.


On May 24, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:


Not really. As it is, having reordering in Flexbox complicates implementation.

I predict that somebody will fill a Flexbox with thousands of items and then use box-ordinal-group for sorting, and expect reasonable performance. Then Flexbox layout not only needs a secondary storage for child order and quicksort. Neither is rocket science, but if it needs to be there it really should have a strong reason.

I am not saying there is no reason for it. But I personally don't think there is a strong reason for it.

From: jamesr@google.com<mailto:jamesr@google.com> [mailto:jamesr@google.com] On Behalf Of James Robinson
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 6:09 PM
To: Alex Mogilevsky
Cc: Tab Atkins Jr.; www-style list
Subject: Re: Box Reordering

How is that statement any different when applied only to flexbox?

- James
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com<mailto:alexmog@microsoft.com>> wrote:
It would be a good idea to contain reordering within flexbox. Even there it seems optional. Applying it everywhere sounds interesting but it is a major complication for implementation and would need strong use cases.