Re:Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future
by coldtea on Thursday March 06, 2014 @11:46AM
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>A web page's layout is meant to stay fluid, because it should adapt to the content it's styling.
The content it's styling it's, more often than not, not fluid.
It's a text that has to have a certain number of characters per line, in order to be legible. It's images that the author intents to be a certain size, and only that.
>These Grid Style Sheets might be powerful but they're not for the web. Definitely not
The Web has not been what you desribe for most of it's life. It might have been the intention of Tim Berner's Lee to be so, but that never caught on. And no real reason for it to catch on.
The content it's styling it's, more often than not, not fluid.
It's a text that has to have a certain number of characters per line, in order to be legible. It's images that the author intents to be a certain size, and only that.
>These Grid Style Sheets might be powerful but they're not for the web. Definitely not
The Web has not been what you desribe for most of it's life. It might have been the intention of Tim Berner's Lee to be so, but that never caught on. And no real reason for it to catch on.