Re: [css3-flexbox] New WD "CSS Flexible Box Layout"

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>wrote:

> The one thing that I noticed I've done with floats but can't reproduce
> with flexboxes is having two sets of boxes, one packed to the left and
> the other packed to the right.  I believe that XUL devs usually use a
> <spacer> with a higher box-ordinal to achieve this effect, right?


They usually use a spacer and manually order the content. box-ordinal is
almost never used by XUL developers. I suppose it might find more use on the
Web, where you have to deal with fallback in other browsers and a stronger
separation of style from content --- but I think the value of box-ordinal is
still an open question at this point.

Rob
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