[css3-grid] new editor's draft available

There is a new editor's draft of the CSS3 Grid Layout module available: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-grid-align/.

Significant updates include:


*         Inclusion of an algorithm for sizing the Grid's columns and rows

*         Reducing the functionality of the grid-template property so that it's just a mechanism for naming a region of the Grid

o   Eliminated the ability to select Grid Cells with the grid-cell pseudo (eliminated the pseudo-element selector)

o   Eliminated the ability to style Grid Cells including any ability to control its inner layout with the display or grid-cell-stacking property (eliminated the grid-cell-stacking property)

*         Corrected an error in the grammar for grid-columns and grid-rows properties

The rationale for the changes related to the grid-template property are based on a belief that a more general mechanism would be better suited to generating containers that can apply an arbitrary layout to their contents.  Making such a mechanism layout specific seems like an unnecessary restriction and orthogonal to the problem of Grid layout.  Some discussion on this topic<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2011May/0493.html> has already taken place on the mailing list.  We're looking forward to discussing this further in person at the F2F.

Comments welcome

Thanks
Alex

Received on Saturday, 23 July 2011 09:31:45 UTC