Grid Alignment is published on W3.org!

re: Grid Alignment is published on W3.org!

mentas — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:17:18 GMT

The true "Grid System" come to HTML!

Is this coming to IE9? No, W3C blahh blahh, Standards blahh blahhh... you have to wait 20 years to use it :(

The world can't wait and believe on standards.

re: Grid Alignment is published on W3.org!

KathyKam [MSFT] — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:51:41 GMT

Hi Eisenberg,

Glad you are excited about this as well. Answering some of your questions:

Can you use it with more than Grid? Yes - All HTML element should work, not just DIVs.

What happens next? Well this is still an "Editor's Draft" - Beginning of a exciting but long road! TPAC is happening this week in Lyon, France. www.w3.org/.../TPAC I'll probably find out more once the reps from MS return.

Thanks,

Kathy

re: Grid Alignment is published on W3.org!

EisenbergEffect — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:10:29 GMT

Kathy, I've read the spec. Nice work. Obviously seeing the influences from WPF/SL make there way into browser would be great. This is an important missing piece for building real applications. I noticed that all the samples used lists of divs. Can I assume that the grid element would work the same against a hierarchical structure? perhaps one using new html5 Nav/Section/Header elements? It's important that we be able to maintain the semantic meaning of the documents in it's DOM and be able to layout the elements in a flexible way as proposed by the spec. Also, what happens next? Does this have to be approved? Will Microsoft be creating a javascript library to support this immediately? perhpas a jQuery plugin? or will we have to wait for every browser to implement this individually?