Re: partitioning rectangles into sub-rectangles -- CSS vs <table>

Hi David,
I haven't looked closely at the problem you are trying to solve, but this
might be the CSS3 you are looking for:
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
Cheers
Ollie


On 9 March 2014 03:50, David Dailey <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I've been fiddling with this problem (vaguely related to Euler diagrams)
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> http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1116/number-of-ways-to-partition-a-rectangle-into-n-sub-rectangles
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> Now, here is the question for you folks:
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> We are told that using HTML tables to divide space into geometry is a
> terrible non-non, akin, perhaps to fratricide or, at least, fracking. Alas,
> colspan and rowspan (curse the folks who invented them!) makes it so
> painless (see for example, the little table (a geometric metaphor for the
> thought process) at http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/Navigability.html) ! Is
> there any way nearly so easy to do this with CSS? I was once told that it
> was impossible in CSS2, but that CSS3 would make it again possible (though
> doubtlessly far more complex).
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> I know that the subject raises passion in certain communities where
> ideology trumps pragmatism, but mathematics is ultimately a purer ideology,
> methinks, than web-standards-dogma, whence the question.
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> Cheers
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> David
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