Re: roadmap for new CSS specs: template, grid, regions and floats

Alex, are you saying that you can use something from SVG DOM tree to define content shape in CSS?
Could you elaborate more on this? How this supposed to work?

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Andrew Fedoniouk

http://terrainformatica.com




From: Alex Mogilevsky 
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 7:33 PM
To: Andrew Fedoniouk ; François REMY ; w3c-css-wg ; www-style@w3.org 
Subject: RE: roadmap for new CSS specs: template, grid, regions and floats

Yes, certainly using SVG to define wrap and exclusion shapes seems very appropriate. It was noted when regions were presented at F2F..

 

From: Andrew Fedoniouk [mailto:andrew.fedoniouk@live.com] 
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:48 AM
To: François REMY; Alex Mogilevsky; w3c-css-wg; www-style@w3.org
Subject: Re: roadmap for new CSS specs: template, grid, regions and floats

 

On this:

  Does CSS really need to solve every UI problem ?

I am not speaking about every problem here. We’ve got particular document from Adobe where

authors have tried to introduce arbitrary shapes. If we will do this then I would like to see shapes 

as not as sporadic idea but some reusable definition. 

 

As of SVG for that particular expandable tabs shape: I would like to see real implementation 

of such thing in SVG. Last time when I tried this in SVG I’ve discovered that it is impossible there

(I mean in static declaration without JS magic). So I would like to see concrete proof of your statement.

 

-- 
Andrew Fedoniouk

http://terrainformatica.com

 

 

 

From: François REMY 

Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 1:59 AM

To: Andrew Fedoniouk ; Alex Mogilevsky ; w3c-css-wg ; www-style@w3.org 

Subject: Re: roadmap for new CSS specs: template, grid, regions and floats

 

  As of #2 – non-rectangular shapes. 

  I think we should have more generic mechanism of defining such things. 

  E.g. I have multiple requests to provide mechanism in CSS that will allow to 

  define shapes like tabs here:

  http://harmonia.terrainformatica.com/lib/exe/detail.php?id=start&media=harmonia.png

Does CSS really need to solve every UI problem ?

 

To me, it seems that an SVG is the best way to solve those kind
of problems. It already has well-defined tools like PATH that
can solve those problems efficiently.

 

If CSS really needs complex shapes, it should probably make use 
of the existing SVG standards. Or is there any reason to not follow
the SVG exemple ?

 

Regards,
François