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		Ygg2 on June 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CSS Grid Level 2 – subgrid is coming to Firefox > Cannot this be done with just floats Every time a float is used a Servo dev gets another grey hair. Jokes aside, floats are Ok, but they make parallel layout from very hard to optimize, to no better than just using a single thread.

sureaboutthis on June 6, 2019 [–]

Similarly to tables, floats were not created for layout and shouldn't be used for layout anymore.

ZeikJT on June 7, 2019 | [–]

Unless of course you're talking about laying out an image alongside text.

sureaboutthis on June 7, 2019 | | [–]

That's not page layout as we're talking about. That is one of the proper uses of float.

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