- From: Lance J. via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:08:27 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Leaning towards the grid integrated approach, mainly due to the reuse of properties, as described in Webkit's blog, making it easier to learn and remember in my opinion. > For example — when Flexbox was invented, it came with the Alignment properties (justify-content, align-items, etc). Then when Grid came along, those same properties were reused for a similar but slightly different purpose. New properties were added (justify-items) matching the existing pattern (align-items) to extend the feature. > > Same with gap. When multicolumn was invented, a new column-gap property provided a way to define the space between columns. A decade later, when the CSSWG needed a way to define space between grid columns, the column-gap property was repurposed. It got a corresponding row-gap property and a new shorthand, gap, to be more universal, and eventually made its way to Flexbox as well. It took a couple tries, but the CSSWG realized it would be a mistake to keep creating separate gap properties for different contexts — column-gap + grid-gap + flex-gap… It’s better to repurpose what already exists. However, just like we did with gap, it should always be possible to retroactively merge properties in a shorthand alias when masonry had some time to grow in the real world and we have a better understanding on the overlaps and differences. Yet splitting masonry to their own display retroactively is less feasible. **So no strong opinion from my side, but hope the concerns about having separate properties for different contexts can be addressed with shorthand aliases in the future no matter the approach we choose now.** -- GitHub Notification of comment by Lancear Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/11060#issuecomment-2479101741 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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