- From: Andrew Clover <and@doxdesk.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 09:41:30 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian <oadrian@hotmail.com> wrote: > there's a simple solution to my problems What you have proposed - and similar ideas for enhancements to CSS Positioning mentioned on this mailing list for a long time, including my own pet grid positioning idea - are *not* simple solutions. They would require heavy rewriting of UAs' existing layout code, with high potential fall-out for pages authored to current standards. Without string vendor support for some particular approach this just isn't going to happen. It has taken years to get browsers to a position where CSS 2 mostly works most of the time; even if we all agreed on a good solution now it would take many, many years before some notional 'CSS 4 Positioning' would actually be usable. Absolute positioning is indeed not ideal for all kinds of layouts authors want to come up with, but when layout really is important there are workarounds that experienced authors know and understand and that will probably do for now. Any proposed replacement must be not just better than absolute positioning, but an order of magnitude better, before anyone can even consider it. That's my analysis, anyway. I do not speak for W3C. -- Andrew Clover mailto:and@doxdesk.com http://www.doxdesk.com/
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