When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?
(webkit.org)26 points by feross 10 hours ago
26 points by feross 10 hours ago
The left side of the first example picture looks to me like four columns laid out using a vertical flexbox each. In fact, it looks like the very example that I saw people using saying "Look how the flexbox layout on the left doesn't line up the text boxes, but on the right the text boxes are all neatly aligned, isn't that nicer?"
I realize that the difference is that the items are laid out horizontally, i.e. photos 1-2-3-4 are all across the top, whereas with vertical flexboxes items 1-2-3-4 would end up in the first column (or you'd have to rearrange your divs taking the flexbox layout into account, which is often impractical).
But the gain from CSS Grid Lanes is not immediately obvious from looking at the first photo, as it's so very similar to the old "left is flexbox, right is grid" examples from when Grid was new.
This seems kind of redundant. I would just use flexbox for something like this. Grid is already an extremely rare item for me. I only ever use it when I need to control the overall layout for an app that has to work on a wide range of viewports. I'd never use grid just because it can do clever brickwork.
I wonder when we'll get hexagonal lanes, triangular and Penrose tiling. Rest assured, there will be practically infinite set of features designers would invent. Language designers would do good takubg into account Scheme idea: language is good when there is nothing to remove.
I think you don’t need new CSS features to put AI generated content in jumbotron.
I dislike the idea that CSS should be made more complex. Everyone is doing the same template with Jumbotron anyway.
Pick the colors, pick imagery and name for the brand - doing some magic with CSS will only piss off people.
Cookie cutter design is what I like. I can compare the companies when they all have the same template for a website.
> Cookie cutter design is what I like. I can compare the companies when they all have the same template for a website.
Any reference?
Also I do feel like some people prefer animations. Maybe not the Hackernews crowd itself per se. But I think that having two options (or heck three the third one being really just pure html just text no styling maybe some simple markdown) is something good in my opinion.
Honestly I do feel like 1-2 animations are okay with a website but the award winning websites really over spam it in my opinion
I think maybe the amount of animations in https://css-tricks.com might be nice given that those guys/website teaches other people about animation themselves and have only 1 maybe 2 animations that I can observe interacting with their website and I do feel like that's for good reason (they don't want animations to be too distracting)
I personally don't know, I personally have never built any such websites but recently wanted to and I was looking at gsap tuturials on today & I do feel like one of the frustrations I feel is that these animations don't respect the browser sometimes to have animations (Scroll animations being the first one) but I even watched some designers talk about how much important scroll animations are (them betting that every award winning website has scroll animations)
Even https://ycombinator.com has a lots of animations & Css features & people on HN did love it from what I could tell. So to me, it does feel as if there is no one size fits all.
I think the plan going forward is to allow people to implement their own CSS layout primitives using Houdini, but I haven't kept track of how it has evolved or progressed.
Here's the famous 2004 article on why tables are bad.[1] Cool people do everything with break and div. The CSS crowd then spent two decades re-inventing tables.
[1] https://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/everything.html