- From: Ian Kilpatrick via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:29:13 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> In the long run it ends up better for web developers because future layout modes just get one unified set of properties rather than 5+ prefixes/set of names. I disagree with this just due to the timeframes involved. Historically typically add a new layout mode every 5-10 years (table ~1995?, flex ~2012 , grid ~2017 , grid-lanes ~2026?). So perhaps a new layout mode in the 2030s which would only use those properties (then a N year transition after that). The cognitive overhead is real and will be around for a very long time. Furthermore developers are used to using `flex-*` for flex, `grid-*` for grid, and will likely expect to use `something-*` for a new transformative layout mode, and there will likely need to be `something-*` specific properties. Again in an ideal world maybe it would have been better to start with a unified set of properties, but that isn't the world we live in. -- GitHub Notification of comment by bfgeek Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12803#issuecomment-3524695566 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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