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I agree, although, considering the age of Dreamweaver, I don't think we've come far enough. In other words, my younger self from early 00's would have expected way more from 2019. I didn't know what I wanted had a name (CCSS[1]), but I wanted it, and unfortunately for the web platform, there's still no official implementation, but at least there's a JS-based one[2]. [1]: https://gss.github.io/guides/ccss [2]: https://github.com/gss/engine

Unsurprisingly, something along these lines has already sorta been tried [0][1]: > Famo.us is the only JavaScript framework that includes an open source 3D layout engine fully integrated with a 3D physics animation engine that can render to DOM, Canvas, or WebGL. They raised a fairly large amount of money, but eventually dropped the idea and moved to a totally different market [2]. Grid Style Sheets [3] gets an honorable mention as well. It compiled GSS rules and applied them as fixed position divs. I've been researching this subject a bit lately. Surprisingly, many of these problems were already solved in the native world by the end of the 90s. The key innovation from the web is that it's a fully sandboxed environment. Despite all the web's flaws, one area in which it has done pretty well is accessibility. Many native apps leave a lot to

Yes, but OP is wrong when he says that there is nothing to see. He just didn't take the time to even look. The source code of the underlying layout engine is published on GitHub: https://github.com/gss/engine

GSS handles it just fine, pre-measured GSS which isn't even yet an officially documented feature, doesn't. But anyway, would be nice if you could document your setup and the problem you're seeing at https://github.com/gss/engine/issues

https://github.com/the-gss/engine/blob/master/dist/gss.js#L1... This holy if statement from the gods..

The output from PEG.js for this is... intense: https://github.com/the-gss/engine/blob/master/dist/gss.js#L1... (scroll down a few thousand lines to see what I mean)

It does not appear work in IE9/10 yet: https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/5ee9a304678365bec6... from their github page: https://github.com/the-gss/engine

>What browsers does it support? They have that on the github page: https://github.com/the-gss/engine. As for the rest, it looks like this is early days. The menu on the left does tell you at least how to get it installed and how the VFL language works. I wouldn't quite call it "tutorial" level, but it's probably enough to start hacking. Very exciting stuff though.

I agree about using Grids, in fact we're currently working on a Grid Layout Module polyfill, but with constraint-based sugar. Really excited for this one, relative constraints can get tedious, abstract grid-based primitives make high level layouts much more intuitive. Concerning Flexbox, it is not a lie! Flexbox is still dependent on the source order / parent-child relationships within the DOM. With constraints, you get true source order independence, so you can layout any group of elements within any other regardless of DOM structure... When I get time, will push demos on how to simulate Flexbox and show examples not possible with Flexbox... Amazingly, IE 11 just worked, yes need to tackle lower versions... Unfortunately, there is no other way to accomplish GSS's constraint-based CSS extensions without a runtime replacement for the b