- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:44:54 +0000
- To: Markus Jonsson <carnaby@passagen.se>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:35:29PM +0100, Markus Jonsson wrote: > Shouldn't there be a Grid element, similar to the GtkIconView of the > GTK+ toolkit? GTK is a toolkit for building GUIs. HTML is a language for describing the semantics, structure and relationships of documents. When doing layout in a GUI it makes sense to be able to specify "a grid", but that doesn't really have a place in HTML. Presentation of markup documents is handled by stylesheets. > Unlike a TABLE, you wouldn't have to specify rows and columns. The > number of cols/rows would be rearranged automatically due to the > measures of the container. I'm not sure I understand what you are saying here, but it sounds like a description of the inline-block display type. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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