An alternative proposal for CSS masonry  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

Rachel responds to Jen’s recent post with the counter-argument; why masonry should be separate from grid.

I’m not entirely convinced. We heard performance issues as a reason why we could never have container queries or :has, but here we are. And the syntax for a separate masonry spec borrows so heavily from grid that it smells of redundancy.

An alternative proposal for CSS masonry  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers

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