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Eric A. Meyer
meyerweb @mollydotcom I agree that it's not sufficient to that task, but is instead a (useful) hack. I've been saying so publicly for years.
Tantek Çelik
t @mollydotcom evolution rarely if ever follows anyone's intent. floats r more flexible than tables for layout on mobile, narrow windows, etc.
Molly E. Holzschlag
mollydotcom I'm concerned about CSS3. I think the first priority advancement for all web browsers should be an interoperable layout engine.
Molly E. Holzschlag
mollydotcom @meyerweb Do you agree that "float" of W3C was not implemented for columnar display?
Molly E. Holzschlag
mollydotcom @t But floats didn't evolve the way Bert intended, if so. Not more flexible than tables now, and Bert is always present at CSS WG meetings.
Tantek Çelik
t @mollydotcom many years ago CSS1 co-inventor Bert Bos told me 'float' was absolutely intended for flowing layout more flexible than tables.
Eric A. Meyer
meyerweb @mollydotcom I honestly don't remember any more. Might have been Costello, might have arisen from diverse sources.
Molly E. Holzschlag
mollydotcom IOW, mostly to float image and control text flow. However, floating any element is possible, so it's not "wrong" per se. It's hack-ish, tho.
Molly E. Holzschlag
mollydotcom Whose idea was it to use floats for layout? Early stuff from Eric Costello and Blue Robot but where/when did the idea first come to bear?
Edward Vielmetti
vielmetti winter is acumen in, lhude sing goddamn / skiddeth bus and sloppeth us an ague hath my ham / sing goddamn
Warren Ellis
warrenellis It occurs to me that Twitter could be the redemption of the old "marquee" html markup idea -- Twitter as left-right scrolling news ticker
Eric A. Meyer
meyerweb Dear surgical staff: next time, please don't place the adhesive dressing so one corner is bonded to the side of my boy howdy. Okay?
Tim White
tjameswhite Sitting lotus gatekeeper to the world a father watches
Eric A. Meyer
meyerweb As someone who started with C-60 cassettes, the idea that 500MB of hard drive space free means "almost full" seems utterly ludicrous.

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