Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future

Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future by hiphopyo on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:03AM (#7354492)

True indeed. Grids are only meant for architecture and graphic design. If needed, they should only be transferred to websites and apps visually (ie. http://hashgrid.com/). Transferring them programatically is a waste of time. Basic CSS will do just fine.

http://subtraction.com/pics/0703/grids_are_good.pdf‎

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Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future by d4tocchini on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:17AM (#7354591)

W3C has been hashing out new grid-based specs for quite some time now, because as admitted in the Grid Layout Module working draft, "As websites evolved... floats, were not necessarily well suited for application layout."

http://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/#background

Dozens & dozens of CSS grid systems have emerged, but without retooling the internals of the browser's layout engine and adding new CSS language features, such attempts retain the flaws of CSS float & will taint content semantics.

But, of course, the W3C's grid-based efforts is not without flaws, see:

http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/rethinking-css-grids

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Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future by specialist on Thursday March 06, 2014 @12:00PM (#7354925)

Thanks for mentioning this. I had peeked at those specs, proposals. Looks like a CSS version of GridBagLayout. No mention of canonical grids. (See my other comment.)

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Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future by dragonwriter on Thursday March 06, 2014 @07:39PM (#7357637)

> Grids are only meant for architecture and graphic design.

This isn't a grid, its constraint-based layout. the "Grid" in GSS isn't because its grid-based (which it isn't), but because its part of the platform for a stealth startup called "the Grid".

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