Re: [css-line-grid] Are named grids required?

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:10 PM, fantasai
<fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net> wrote:
> On 02/25/2014 04:44 PM, Alan Stearns wrote:
>> I've been thinking about how we might simplify the initial version of a
>> baseline grid feature while still allowing future extensions.
>>
>> One thing that the current draft and your proposal both have are named
>> grids. I'm not certain named grids are required for the largest set of use
>> cases. In most cases I can think of, there is only a single grid. And when
>> you do need more than one grid, the use of each grid is usually
>> constrained to separate parts of the tree (elements in a single parent do
>> not snap to different grids).
>>
>> What if we only allowed unnamed baseline grids to start, but left the
>> syntax open to allow for named grids in the future? The first iteration of
>> the line-grid property would only allow an element to establish a new
>> baseline grid:
>>
>> line-grid: auto | new
>>
>> where auto (or none?) is the initial value that doesn't establish a grid,
>> and new establishes a new baseline grid that all of the element's children
>> can use to snap to. Later on, if we find a need for named grids we could
>> extend the syntax to:
>>
>> line-grid: auto | new [named <ident>]
>>
>> The line-snap property would start out just snapping the dominant baseline
>> to whatever grid has been established for the element - the closest parent
>> with 'line-grid: new' or a default grid from the root element. When and if
>> named grids were added, then we could also add a keyword to the line-snap
>> property to pick a named grid instead (perhaps 'from <ident>'?)
>
>
> I was actually pondering the same thing, with the keywords
>   line-grid: match-parent | create
> :)
>
> I'm happy to update the spec as such, but thoughts on naming?
> (Also, comments from other people?)

I like "match-parent", but is it useful to allow something to opt out
of the line-grid without establishing a new one?  (That is, an
explicit "none" value?)

~TJ

Received on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 21:22:32 UTC