Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
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Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
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Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#2Design by committee is not the best but if you need one more view to be convinced, as a non native English speakers the property names proposed are not communicating the meaning very well. Eg Defining the gap but drawing the separator.
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#3this has been a pain point for a long, long time. it's cool to see someone doing something
this is just `display: grid` though, and not for non-fixed width elements – the hacker news nav bar is an example where the | between links—on small screens—will either appear at the end of the first line, or at the start of the second line
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#4this has been a pain point for a long, long time. it's cool to see someone doing something this is just `display: grid` though, and not for non-fixed width elements – the hacker news nav bar is an example where the | between links—on small screens—will either appear at the end of the first line, or at the start of the second line
> this is just `display: grid` though
It’s also for flexbox
> and not for non-fixed width elements
What’s this mean? The biggest thing grid can’t do is wrapping; is that what you mean?
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#5God I hope this goes through... Using AI to fix my aweful knowledge of flexbox was a blessing but this feels like the actual solution.
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#6Design by committee is not the best but if you need one more view to be convinced, as a non native English speakers the property names proposed are not communicating the meaning very well. Eg Defining the gap but drawing the separator.
Was just wondering that myself.. why they went with "rule" in `column-rule` and now `row-rule`
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#7If it doesn't go through, what then? Do we see a return to people using special flags and having code to see if you are on an edge server or not?
I sure as hell hope not. It would be groundhog day.
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#8I wish they took the use-case of resizable panels into account. Even if the implementation is fully user-land, a styleable separator that can also receive events would be so useful.
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#9Design by committee is not the best but if you need one more view to be convinced, as a non native English speakers the property names proposed are not communicating the meaning very well. Eg Defining the gap but drawing the separator.
Was just wondering that myself.. why they went with "rule" in `column-rule` and now `row-rule`
> From Middle English reule, rewle, rule, borrowed from Old French riule, reule, from Latin regula (“straight stick, bar, ruler, pattern”), from regō (“to keep straight, direct, govern, rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European h₃réǵeti (“to straighten; right”), from the root h₃reǵ-; see regent. Doublet of rail, regal, regula and rigol.
Re: Minding the gaps: A new way to draw separators in CSS
#10I wish they took the use-case of resizable panels into account. Even if the implementation is fully user-land, a styleable separator that can also receive events would be so useful.
It's absolutely crazy that the only way to get a native splitter in HTML is to use iframes.