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Don't quite follow you, but if you're talking about a box-based layout for the web, that's a little overly simplistic as "the" layout, but is already possible. Keep in mind the historical underpinings; web documents were always more like scrolls than screens.





Not a layout, but a design tool like Figma, leveraging the default flow of elements.

Something like Webflow then?

Not really, I’m not thinking to replace CMS builders like Wix or Squarespace either.

More like ”no-code design directly in HTML and CSS”, but with familiar Figma/Sketch-line controls for sizing, alignment, etc. Responsive by default, boxes full-width and vertically sized by content by default, manual pixel sizing of elements heavily discouraged in favor of block/inline-block/inline. Sane defaults for theme tokens, but easily customizable.

In other words, a hands-on design tool for web layouts, working directly on the DOM and stylesheet, preferring the flow for positioning and leveraging (normalized) HTML/CSS defaults.

My thinking is mostly born out of frustration with the performance of flexbox-inside-flexbox layouts and the total disparity of text layout between web and existing design tools.




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