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		SideburnsOfDoom on March 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Get on the CSS Grid I think it's actually based on the grids in WPF ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation ). This is no bad thing; those grids are superb for UI layout. Look at the editors list; this comes out of MS. Again, it's good that they feed this out into web standards.

revelation on March 21, 2014 [–]

Very much reminded me of WPF, where grids are awesome. This being CSS, the syntax is a bit wonky, but it is certainly very good news for a world stuck in "pick any one of three sizes" bootstrap grids.

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