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Re:CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square by rvanmil on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:23AM (#13529029)
Both Android (ConstraintLayout) and iOS (Auto Layout) use Cassowary. Why not just implement this with CSS as well so we can use the same layout tech for every platform?
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Re:CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square by asurma on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @10:42AM (#13531463)
Athor here :)

I totally feel you, and that is what Houdini’s Custom Layout is going to be about: https://github.com/w3c/css-houdini-drafts/blob/2b730220b2f3c...

I want to write a blog post about constraing based layouts on the web specifically, but the TL;DR on why we don’t have it already:

Standardization is hard. It’s especially hard to reach consensus when:

* the runtime for a layout algorithm is hard to estimate

* it can _fail_ (which is unprecedented in CSS)

* a new syntax for constrains would have to be defined.

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Re:CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square by aocvr on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @06:16AM (#13529612)
The projects listed here under "Web" try to achieve that: http://overconstrained.io/
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