The Home of the Future

CSS layout methods now and tomorrow, through the somewhat spurious lens of architecture.

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1. THE HOME OF THE FUTURE PETER GASSTON STOPSATGREEN broken-links.com
2. Vernacular architecture
3. POLiTE architecture
6. Multi-columns
7. Multi-columns div { column-width: 10em; } div { column-count: 3; }
8. Multi-columns h2 { column-span: all; }
9. multi-columns
10. Multi-columns PLUG 1 of 2
11. Flex-box
12. Flex-box .holder { display: box; } .child { box-flex: 1; } A B .a { box-flex: 3; } .b { box-flex: 2; }
13. Flex-box .child { box-flex: 0; box-align: center; box-pack: center; } .outer { box-orient: vertical; } .a,.b { box-ordinal-group: 2; } .c { box-ordinal-group: 1; } C A B
14. Flex-box JS Shim: https://github.com/doctyper/flexie
15. Flex-box display: box → display: flexbox box-flex → flex() box-orient → flex-direction box-ordinal-group → flex-order Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/
16. Template Layout
17. TEMPLATE LAYOUT .a { position: a; } .b { position: b; } .c { position: c; } .outer { display: 'abc'; } A B C A B C
18. TEMPLATE LAYOUT .outer { display: 'abb' 'a.c'; } A B C A B C .outer { display: 'aa' 'bc'; }
19. TEMPLATE LAYOUT JS Shim: http://code.google.com/p/css-template-layout/ Demos: http://nealgrosskopf.com/tech/thread.php?pid=46
20. Grid Layout
21. grid LAYOUT div { display: grid; grid-columns: 1fr 1fr 2fr; } div { display: grid; grid-columns: 1fr 1fr 2fr; grid-rows: 10em auto 40px; }
22. grid LAYOUT .child { grid-column: 2; grid-row: 2; } .a { grid-column: 2; grid-column-span: 2; } .b { grid-row-span: 3; } A B
23. grid LAYOUT Spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-grid-layout/ Blog post: http://j.mp/kul0H1 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/04/14/ie10-platform-preview-and-css-features-for-adaptive-layouts.aspx
24. GRiD LAYOUT .outer { grid-template: 'abc'; } .a { grid-cell: a; } .b { grid-cell: b; } .c { grid-cell: c; } A B C
25. Extended Floats
26. EXTENDED FLOATS .a { float: positioned; position: absolute; left: 33.3%; top: 33.33%; width: 33.3%; } Spec: http://www.interoperabilitybridges.com/css3-floats/ A
27. Regions
28. REGiONS: THREADS A B .a { flow: 'foo'; } .b { content: from(foo); } B C D .b, .c, .d { content: from(foo); }
29. REGiONS: THREADS
30. REGiONS: SHAPES .child { wrap-shape: polygon(150px,0 0,300px 300px,300px); wrap-shape-mode: around; }
31. REGiONS: SHAPES
32. REGiONS: exclusions .a { wrap-shape-mode: content; } .b { wrap-shape: polygon(150px,0 0,300px 300px,300px); wrap-shape-mode: around; }
33. REGiONS: EXCLUSIONS
34. regions Spec: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-regions/ Prototype: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cssregions/ Pro tip: use http://leo-koppelkamm.de/polyCreator/ for creating polygons.
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37. http://brittbell.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/banfflakelouise/2274619237/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/el_momento_i_sitio_apropiados/5634431702/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/chanc/3869133751/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gullevek/580672409/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/instantjefferson/2231405/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/moritzbernoully/3412093432/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulaofessel/335809741/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/opacity/617608495/ IMAGE CREDITS