- From: Alexis Deveria <adeveria@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:40:09 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
Here's a suggestion to help come up with the best CSS layout system: The CSS WG could ask web designers to submit some HTML markup, together with one or more images that would illustrate the desired layout effect that they feel should be made possible with CSS. These designs could range from simple concepts to complex ones, but most importantly should focus on designs they wish they could use today (without extra markup/CSS hacks). We could then see how well (if at all) they could be achieved using the various proposed layout systems, thus revealing which system would likely work best in most situations. While not every submission may address each situation that implementers/spec writers need to consider, just having a large amount of concepts to experiment with should be helpful in finding the system best suited for the task. To some degree, Fantasai already asked this of designers when requesting general CSS3 feedback [1]. However, considering the importance and complexity of a full-fledged layout system, I believe it's important that the CSS WG request layout samples specifically, including a guideline on how to submit them. As the web desigining community appears largely in favor of having a proper layout system, there should be significant willingness to help the process of deciding on one. Submitting samples would seem to be the best way for them to accomplish this. [1] http://www.webstandards.org/2008/01/18/tell-the-css-wg-what-you-want-from-css3/#comment-59720 Thank you, Alexis Deveria http://a.deveria.com
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