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Re: [css-grid] [css-align] Grid is now CR, but what about css-align?

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 02:15:06 -0400
To: Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>, www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
Cc: Manuel Rego Casasnovas <rego@igalia.com>, Javier Fernandez <jfernandez@igalia.com>
Message-ID: <4738dd51-62a5-d1e2-087c-00ddd9a7b8e0@inkedblade.net>
On 10/03/2016 09:37 AM, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I see that Grid is now a CR. Yay!

Yay!

> However, Grid has normative dependencies on Align, which is
> only a WD. How does that work? Shouldn't Align also be a CR, at
> least for those parts used by Grid?

I think Tab answered the process question.

> Semi-relatedly:
> Align has sort of three components to it:
> - General alignment for blocks
> - Extended alignment properties for Flex
> - The properties for Grid
>
> We (Blink) only want to implement the Grid part and probably the Flex part, for now. The working group has previously
> supported this approach. However, I am not sure whether "align-content: baseline" should be considered more part of the
> "applies to blocks" or "necessary for grid"? I am thinking it would be the latter (and thus not implement it for now), thoughts?

I would implement and ship the subset of Align syntax that's been
shipped as part of Flexbox, plus the start/end/space-evenly values.

The rest of it is less stable.

~fantasai
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