on my hands and knees begging for web browsers to finally for real implement masonry grids so i can stop fucking around with a million different half measures and just have something that works

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on my hands and knees begging for web browsers to finally for real implement masonry grids so i can stop fucking around with a million different half measures and just have something that works
CSS grid is a huge improvement but I wish it could get the last 20% right
Limitations in the render pipelines iirc; some projects out there trying to do a total page render overhaul. The way width is calculated for flow, then needs more passes to determine element height is messy...
but I mean, same, same
when putting together the photos pages on my lil personal website, I ended up so frustrated with existing solutions that I went the route of making my own. it's really nice and I'm happy with it, but... it's built on like, several layers of weird css, and kind of behaves weirdly, and I really wish there was a better way
I was gonna say "I swear I saw something like this recently" and it's Safari-only for now lolsob https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_grid_layout/Masonry_layout#browser_compatibility