- From: Phil Cupp <pcupp@microsoft.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:39:07 +0000
- To: Alexander Shpack <shadowkin@gmail.com>
- CC: www-style <www-style@w3.org>
>From: Alexander Shpack [mailto:shadowkin@gmail.com] >The main goal is unifying many positioning schemes to the one. >Authors have today more than 6 positioning schemes: floats, tables (yes, tables have unique behavior), inline-blocks, multi-columns, grids, templates, regions. It's too complicated. [pcupp] Unification of all layout types into one is not a goal for the grid. If that's the goal of the new layout your proposing that's fine, but just to be clear it isn't feedback that I can act on. >Every author's solution, IMO, should as simple as possible. I don't want to create dozens of media queries, megabytes of CSS for every specific case, browser should rearrange the content automatically. >This is dreams of many coders. Grid layout is not better than floats or tables (display: table-cell), this is different view of one thing. [pcupp] The grid isn't better or worse, but it is substantially different than both floats and tables. It addresses a different set of scenarios like dividing up the space in a viewport or building a control out of HTML primitives. I like to compare the grid to absolute positioning, except instead of using lengths to specify the position of the item, you express the position using grid lines; the location of which can be determined by sizing functions that space the grid lines based on a length, the contents between two lines, or remaining space in the grid.
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