If you use your HTML/CSS as object code, this is easy enough to abstract in your generating code.
Bingo! And that's one reason Arc is pretty exciting. I'll be able to do the equivalent of center: horizontal, and the details can be abstracted.
Bingo! And that's one reason Arc is pretty exciting. I'll be able to do the equivalent of center: horizontal, and the details can be abstracted.
1. To the parent, the width of which is known by the layout code of the browser at any moment at 'runtime'.
1a. Fair enough, then it won't show up. But it will not-be-there centered, goddammit!! >:)
2. Which is a very fair question, and how languages get better.
3. That is one way to look at it, the one the language seems to force into you, and apparently it's the least intuitive.
4. If you can get an exactly equivalent effect with other expression, how come you can't have "center horizontally" just become an alias/shortcut/abstraction for that, if newbies expect it?
Then again, this is only an issue for hand-coded CSS. If you use your HTML/CSS as object code, this is easy enough to abstract in your generating code.