Thanks, Sami. I'll keep sending reviews to gwtc, and copy you on them --
this stuff needs all the vetting it can get.

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Sami Jaber <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> AFAICT, what's happening here is that the layout works "properly" in the
>> sense that the tables inside the various LayoutPanels are in fact laid out
>> as requested. The problem is that children nested *inside* table cells don't
>> take up the entire cell in standards mode, even if their width/height are
>> set to 100%. This is one of the biggest mistakes (IMNSHO) in the CSS
>> standard, but there's little to be done about that now.
>>
>> I believe Tab/DeckPanel are going to have to be among the widgets for
>> which we build layout-aware implementations. This would eliminate this
>> problem by eliminating the <table>. I'm going to be reviewing and checking
>> in implementations of the widgets described in the layout design doc over
>> the next week or so. Any help you could provide by reviewing their APIs and
>> behaviors would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>
> Thanks a lot Joel for your precious answer. This topic is really
> challenging and the idea that consist to build an entire layout framework on
> top of 4 CSS properties is just crazy. Looking forward for the next
> patches/evolutions and you can obviously count on me for any kind of review
> I could provide (let me know if you prefer private mails or a contrib
> broadcasted mail)
>
> Sami
>
> ps: I will probably tease bobv now that I have spent time on the last deRPC
> changes ;-)

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