- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 07:33:24 -0700
- To: "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 7/30/12 11:17 AM, "L. David Baron" <dbaron@dbaron.org> wrote: > >The underlying issue is that having an exclusion model without a >connected collision-handling model is broken, because it leads >authors to build designs that are extremely inflexible, and only >work at the specific page size for which they designed it. > >Floats provide both a exclusion model (wrapping text around the >float) collision-handling model (moving a float to the side or down >when it would intersect another float). CSS exclusions provide only >the exclusion model, which means that authors will get >page-size-specific layouts when they use it with a layout model >without a collision-handling model (i.e., every layout model that >they might use it with). David, Rossen and I both responded that flex or grid layout should be good, page-agnostic layout models to use with exclusions. Do you agree with this? As I asked Florian, do you have an example of a layout that is flexible without exclusions, but becomes inflexible once exclusions are introduced? Thanks, Alan
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