On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 12:32:11 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On 06/20/2015 12:20 PM, ketmar wrote: >> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 16:14:43 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: >> >>> On Saturday, 20 June 2015 at 15:36:45 UTC, ketmar wrote: >>>> it was designed to ignore that fact altogether. html/css layouting is >>>> a pitiful attempt and barely usable. bwah, it can't even do normal >>>> constraints! >>> >>> Hmmm, what do you mean by normal constraints? >> >> google://cassowary >> >> that is a *real* constraint engine. what we have in css is a half-assed >> attemt to emulate the real engine without the engine itself. >> >> > I can see why people aren't familiar with that and it's approach: > There's zero front-page examples, and any basic "examples 101", "how to > use it" seem well-buried. Most people are gonna take one brief look and > move on. It seems to really need some better PR.
it's actually a tool for toolkit builders, not for end users. cassowary itself is only a solver, it doesn't even have syntax to setup constraints (toolkit builder must invent an implement one). so it's hard to make example for it which doesn't resemble a wall of text several pages long only to layout three elements. the real power of cassowary is it's dynamic constraint solver. but it needs to be combined with user-friendly constraint syntax, or it will be unusable. so cassowary authors have to write their own toolkit only to show some impressive examples on site! ;-) besides, cassowary comes from "university culture", where user-friendly presentations are bad or non-existent. tl;dr: i completely agree with you! ;-)
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