Re: Box Reordering

Why is reordering more important for flexbox than for table cells or inline-blocks or maybe even floated blocks? I understand wanting to limit the scope, but I don't see why flexboxes should be the corner of CSS to have this super-feature, instead of in other display/flow models.


On May 24, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Alex Mogilevsky wrote:

> Not really. As it is, having reordering in Flexbox complicates implementation.
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> I predict that somebody will fill a Flexbox with thousands of items and then use box-ordinal-group for sorting, and expect reasonable performance. Then Flexbox layout not only needs a secondary storage for child order and quicksort. Neither is rocket science, but if it needs to be there it really should have a strong reason.
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> I am not saying there is no reason for it. But I personally don’t think there is a strong reason for it.
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> From: jamesr@google.com [mailto:jamesr@google.com] On Behalf Of James Robinson
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 6:09 PM
> To: Alex Mogilevsky
> Cc: Tab Atkins Jr.; www-style list
> Subject: Re: Box Reordering
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> How is that statement any different when applied only to flexbox?
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> - James
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> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Alex Mogilevsky <alexmog@microsoft.com> wrote:
> It would be a good idea to contain reordering within flexbox. Even there it seems optional. Applying it everywhere sounds interesting but it is a major complication for implementation and would need strong use cases.
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