You never need an excuse with me. On the contrary, having an adventurous
mind hardly needs an excuse at all.
In fact, where you're headed is a potentially exciting place.
I have a need for something tangentially related for a web production
tool, where I need to reproduce in an LC lib some of the key benefits of
CSS Grid.
Having thought about this for some time, FWIW I would suggest considering:
- Both FlexBox and Grid merit attention for design inspiration,
but between the two it seems most designers find Grid more
generally applicable, so where they differ consider how Grid
does things, at least for a first pass.
- Allowing Grid to serve as more than just inspiration, but an actual
model in terms of properties and how setting those adjusts behavior
would seem very useful for two reasons:
- The design work for something like that is the hard part, and
Grid's design process was thorough, its result very good.
- A lot of us do both native and web apps, so being able to transfer
knowledge from one domain to another simplifies adoption.
When I think of adaptation of web methods for native apps in LC, my mind
often returns to the excellent work of Ralf Bitter with his revIgniter
framework. Inspired by the popular PHP-based webIgniter, his
implementation carries forward the best of what that offers, enhanced in
ways that make very good sense for LC devs.
Our community could benefit from more things like that, popular ideas
from other parts of the world re-envisioned in LC-savvy implementations.
If the parts I need for my web production tool become generally useful
I'll happily contribute them to any more generalized effort toward a CSS
Grid-like lib for LC.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Alex Tweedly wrote:
> Richard,
>
> it wasn't that you over-wrote it - the problem was I over-thought it.
>
> My excuse is that I have been thinking quite a bit this last week
> about whether there was a (simple enough) approach to layout that
> would allow "rows & columns" semi-flow layout to be nearly automatic,
> and be possible to provide a UI that would make it practical (and
> quick) to provide extra guidance to such a system.
>
> You message just happened to fit into that thought exercise - causing
> me to over-complicate things.
>
> So my apologies. I think what you wrote was perfectly clear, it just
> didn't happen to be the same as I was working on :-)
>
> Alex.
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