Re: CSS aims

[EDIT] It looks like I originally sent this to Brian only instead of replying to all. Here’s the mail you should have received a few hours ago:


For your insight, I extended this discussion in a (thoughtful and voluntarily slightly provocative) blog post I cross-posted on www-style and www-html:




http://fremycompany.com/BG/2014/Edito-CSS-will-have-to-fork-HTML-to-prevent-HTML-from-forking-himself-736/





I think it nicely sums up the discussion we had here about whether CSS was just a complement to HTML when designing modern UI and therfore should only be used when simpler than HTML, or if to the contrary CSS should evolve to encompass layout use cases that are currently solved “by mistake” by HTML, and therefore define a markup language or any other way that can be used to define a box tree.










De : Brian Kardell
Envoyé : ‎mercredi‎ ‎22‎ ‎janvier‎ ‎2014 ‎19‎:‎20
À : Marcos Caceres
Cc : Ambrose Little, public-nextweb@w3.org, Håkon Wium Lie






There is a timely piece for this discussion on a list apart from Hakon Wium Lie (added to this thread) which argues that Regions are harmful.  The notable takeaway I think is captured in 
""" 
If we want regions on the web we should find a way to write them in CSS and not in HTML.
"""




But I think you should read his piece and some of the linked bits because that isn't necessary a fair summary of a lot of work.  See http://alistapart.com/blog/post/css-regions-considered-harmful



I expect there will be some discussion on this on www-style if anyone is interested in following or participating in that...