> I also wonder why people aren't crying out for decent layout management for the web They have been, and that's why today there are things like flexbox[0] and

> I also wonder why people aren't crying out for decent layout management for the web They have been, and that's why today there are things like flexbox[0] and grid layout[1]. It just took a long time for the browser vendors/standards bodies to be convinced and then spec these things out to work within the confines of the existing layout models. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexible_Box_Layout/Using_CSS_flexible_boxes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Flexibl... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_Layout https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_La...