John,
What I want is the ability to align the content of a DIV, for instance, or any block element, vertically, and I'm asking why it wasn't included in CSS-1.
I can't think of any policy-type reason why it wasn't, that's all, and I don't see vertical alignment as being directly related to table-cell display either.
I can't speak for Hakon Lie or Bert Bos but...
The original proposal was taking shape in 95/95, really before the abomination of tables for layout had ruined the web :-)
So I'm guessing that it simply wasn't something everyone wanted to do, like it is now.
Ditto multi column layout f'rinstance.
Maybe Bert will have an answer :-)
John
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