- From: Michael Day <mikeday@yeslogic.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:24:41 +1000 (EST)
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Ben Godfrey <afternoon@uk2.net>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
> So far, though, nobody has suggested any way of expressing the "simple" > constraints that Coises gave in his e-mail. The truth is that these are > actually incredibly complicated, both to specify and implement, and > without concrete proposals it is unlikely they will ever find their way > into any CSS spec. I have yet to even see a list of _requirements_ for > such a feature, in fact -- and I don't know where I would start if I had > to write one myself. What about Constraint CSS? [1] It seems that a constraint based model would be useful, not just for implementing the kind of features that Coises was describing, but for implementing *existing* CSS layout features such as table column sizing. Definitely worth a thought. [1] Constraint Cascading Style Sheets for the Web http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gjb/papers/css-uist99.pdf Michael Day YesLogic Pty. Ltd.
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