- From: Stephen Brooks <sb@stephenbrooks.org>
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:01:03 -0000
- To: "Patrick Griffiths" <w3c@htmldog.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
> > I'm going to
> > field the idea of grid, gr, gd tags, which are used specifically for
> gridded
> > layout.
>
> But surely that, and presentation in general is the job of CSS...
>
In theory. It would be nice if CSS did that, but HTML's logic in
table-handling is very flexible and allows the sort of layout that would
only be possible by a rather inelegant amount of CSS. Grid layouts _do_
have the structure of a grid, so to give all the cells an id= attribute and
position them each absolutely seems like replacing something that is
structured by something that is cludged.
-Stephen
Received on Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:03:07 UTC