- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:20:44 +0100
- To: Alan Stearns <stearns@adobe.com>
- Cc: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Brian Kardell <bkardell@gmail.com>, "www-style\@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
Also sprach Alan Stearns:
> >> 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.
> >
> >You don't read enough magazines. Flowing text from one shape to
> >another is another other major use-case.
I see them. That doens't automatically make them really good use
cases. Also by adding ways to select and style individual columns,
these designs can be achieved.
http://www.w3.org/TR/css-overflow-3/#style-of-fragments
> And, as I’ve been pointing out for months and months and months, there are
> non-column-based use cases for directing flow content from one container
> to another.
Yes. Running headers, footnotes, and sidenotes are favorites of mine.
There are ways to achive them without using regions.
http://books.spec.whatwg.org/
What's your list of really good use cases that cannot be solved
without regions?
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 23:21:24 UTC