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Re:CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox by Ygg2 on Thursday June 06, 2019 @07:15AM (#20113374)
> Cannot this be done with just floats

Every time a float is used a Servo dev gets another grey hair.

Jokes aside, floats are Ok, but they make parallel layout from very hard to optimize, to no better than just using a single thread.

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Re:CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox by sureaboutthis on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:58AM (#20115157)
Similarly to tables, floats were not created for layout and shouldn't be used for layout anymore.
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Re:CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox by ZeikJT on Thursday June 06, 2019 @10:00PM (#20121018)
Unless of course you're talking about laying out an image alongside text.
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Re:CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox by sureaboutthis on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:30AM (#20123448)
That's not page layout as we're talking about. That is one of the proper uses of float.
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