- From: Laurens Holst <lholst@students.cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 08:42:29 +0200
- To: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Orion Adrian schreef: > It's time that W3C styling specs took this into account. Have you read http://www.w3.org/Talks/2005/0513-CSS-WWW2005/all.htm ??? Those are the plans to solve the layout problem, as far as I understand. Although I don’t think it is really that much of a problem with CSS 2.1... The difficulty of creating layouts easily right now is mainly caused by IE’s lack of support for the ‘display: table’ properties and absolute positioning with ‘width: auto’ and a specified left and right offsets. And I’m not really sure whether it is worthwhile to sacrifice proper incremental rendering in favour of being able to specify such grids. I think the abovementioned layout techniques are really powerful and just not exploited well yet because they just cannot be used currently. Look at the amount of resources available about n-column layouts using floats and such. Now imagine that display: table and absolute positioning would work properly in the no. 1 browser, and the amount of information that would become available on using those effectively. ~Grauw -- Ushiko-san! Kimi wa doushite, Ushiko-san nan da!!
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