Amir, this is the exact case I am working on.  I'm trting to implement
an interface not dissimilar to Google Reader.  It has a footer at the
bottom of the grid for next prev buttons.

Can this layout handle this?

Excellent work as always.  I'm keenly following this.  Can't get it
quick enough :)

On Aug 10, 9:26 am, Amir Kashani <[email protected]> wrote:
> Joel,
> I love how this is turning out so far, great work. While this system handles
> a vast majority of layout situations, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
> it breaks down with non-100% height layouts that require a footer. An
> example: a header area, followed by a horizontally split content area (body
> and side nav), followed by a footer. I can't think of a way you could
> represent this using absolute positioning that would guarantee the footer
> area isn't encroached upon.
>
> Any thoughts on how LayoutPanel would handle this? Maybe this doesn't fall
> under "desktop-like" layouts and it's handled with floats (which aren't so
> terrible in this particular case)?
>
> - Amir
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Reviewers: jlabanca,
>
> > Please review this athttp://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/51830
>
> > Affected files:
> >   A     layout/Layout.gwt.xml
> >   A     layout/client/Layout.java
> >   A     layout/client/LayoutImpl.java
> >   A     layout/client/LayoutImplIE6.java
> >   A     layout/client/UserAgent.java
> >   A     user/client/ui/HasAnimatedLayout.java
> >   A     user/client/ui/HasLayout.java
> >   A     user/client/ui/LayoutComposite.java
> >   A     user/client/ui/LayoutPanel.java
> >   A     user/client/ui/RootLayoutPanel.java
> >   M     user/client/ui/Widget.java
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