- From: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 17:50:46 +0000
- To: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- CC: "CSS WWW Style (www-style@w3.org)" <www-style@w3.org>
On 1/22/14, 9:28 AM, "Håkon Wium Lie" <howcome@opera.com> wrote: >Alan Stearns wrote: > > > The main remaining issue in the CSS Regions specification is 16858 >[1]. It > > proposes to make flow-from not apply to elements, in favor of making it > > apply to CSS-generated containers only. I will be asking the working >group > > to resolve to close this issue when we meet in Seattle, but I would >like > > to prime that discussion with some debate on the list, as I think >there's > > only a handful of people who are passionately interested in this issue. > >Your proposed solution goes against a fundamental principle of style >sheets: to separate style from structure. And in the part of my message that you snipped, I expressed some of my arguments for why separation of concerns should not be an absolute. This sparked a thread on the Extensible Web list [1] that has been discussing this in more detail, and the feedback there has been fairly consistent about not holding improvements to the web platform hostage to a absolutist SOC argument. > It relies on Regions being >represented by dummy HTML elements instead of writing them in CSS >(which would have been easy). I’m perfectly happy to be able to write them in CSS. I particularly like grid slots. Do you have any other suggestions on how to create containers in CSS? Thanks, Alan [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-nextweb/2014Jan/0001.html
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