- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:51:58 -0800
- To: Rob Crowther <robertc@boogdesign.com>
- Cc: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:23 AM, Rob Crowther <robertc@boogdesign.com> wrote: > On 28/01/11 16:58, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> >> At this level, no. No browser has implemented multiline flexboxes so >> far, despite them being in the older draft for some time, so I'm >> considering them relatively low-value here. > > I think from the point of view of web designers it would be a high value > feature, currently they either don't bother, or they resort to JS hacks, > eg.: > > http://css-tricks.com/equal-height-blocks-in-rows/ > > Though your suggested extensions for table layout would achieve the same > results, it seems to me that it's something flexboxes ought to be able to > do. I don't doubt that it has value, just that it's low-value relative to the rest of the draft. It definitely complicates the model significantly, so I'd much rather push out a simpler model now that addresses most problems, and then do multiline in Flexbox 2 (if it's not already addressed in Tables 3 or 4). ~TJ
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