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Subject: Re: [OT] HTML and Flex layouts
From: Justin Mclean <justin@classsoftware.com>
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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:58:02 +1000
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To: flex-dev@incubator.apache.org

Hi,

> Why should we use different JavaScript frameworks for each task.
Because HTML isn't a full application framework unlike Flex.

> Instead, if it is being a property of HTML that would be nice.
That would be nice but sadly not the way it currently works.

> Why don't Apache / Adobe propose HGroup, List, Grid, Tree and some =
other useful controls to W3C.
There has already been a CSS grid proposal submitted by Microsoft. [1] =
but it's not well supported by browsers [2]. There are also new form =
controls (originally part of the web forms 2.0 spec and now in the HTML5 =
spec) but again not widely supported yet. [3] I assume in time browsers =
will support these features.

> I am bit confusing. What is meant by different layout systems?
Flex applications are broken up into multiple files and use components =
for layout, the layout property can be basic, vertical, horizontal (or =
custom). A HTML page is a single file with the layout controlled by the =
page structure and CSS.

I think this conversion is getting too far off topic, please try and =
keep emails related to Flex development.

Thanks,
Justin

1. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-grid-layout/
2. http://caniuse.com/#feat=3Dcss-grid
3. http://caniuse.com/#feat=3Dforms