- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:42:56 +0100
- To: Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>
- Cc: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>, "www-style\@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Brian Kardell wrote:
> Is there a plausible alternative to #1 with any kind of serious
> thought/support?
Yes. There have been several proposals that use @-rules to represent
regions (or slots, or frames):
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-page-template/
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-layout
Swithing to @-rules would address my primary concern. Some proposals
go further to address other concerns as well:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-3/#style-of-fragments
http://www.wiumlie.no/2013/gcpm/06-27.html#regions
But most use cases don't need to address individual columns. I believe
CSS Multicol + column-span: integer + float: top/bottom addresses most
use case.
The only really good use case for Regions that I can think of is the
tradition newspaper layout where you have a front-page article ending
in "continued on page x" -- having a receptive region on page x makes
sense when recreating this classic design.
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 22:43:32 UTC