…please, let’s put the whole “display: table-cell will grant those abilities through CSS” to rest. Saying that is just saying “use tables for layout” with different words
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I don’t have a concrete idea to propose here, because it’s not up to us any more. A solution was worked out over the course of several years and then found wanting by the implementors. Really, it’s up to the implementors to figure it out now. I personally would like to just lock the browser teams from Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, and Apple in a room and not let them out until they’ve defined something that works and they’ve all agreed to implement soonest. I might even supply food and water.
And yes, I just advocated doing this outside the W3C process. Why wouldn’t I? The process has, in the last decade, not produced anything even remotely resembling an answer to this problem. Time to try another path and see if it gets any closer to the goal.
via Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Wanted: Layout System.
