On 11/27/16, 3:31 AM, "Harbs" <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>FlexJS makes it way too hard to solve simple layout challenges. I don't know if it is fair to blame the patterns and principles of FlexJS for that, but it certainly is possible that the Layout you need hasn't been written yet. Keep in mind that regular Flex VerticalLayout visited every child twice and used %width in a non-CSS-compliant way. So under PAYG, the default FlexJS VerticalLayout is going to leverage what the browser will do and work differently. But that means these lighter weight layouts will leverage CSS and StackOverflow is full of folks wrestling with CSS to get what they want. If FlexJS has other, slower layouts that solve these common problems, that will be an advantage for us. The way I suggest folks deal with layout right now (given that the layout you want may not exist yet), is to just use an HTML editor to layout some widgets in the way you want. All FlexJS is trying to do is identify and encapsulate existing HTML and JS patterns and present them as components. So figure out what the HTML needs to look like and that will determine if an existing layout can do it, or if you need to write a new one. Don't forget that in FlexJS, there is both CSS margin and padding: regular Flex only supported padding and a non-CSS compliant "gap". Thanks, -Alex
