With that, we could have Dreamweaver type layout working again.
That project seems to be more about the math than making layout easier. That's a problem with many academic projects. One thing I've liked about Autodesk products is that they often have complex math inside, completely hidden from the user. You see that in the CAD world, where the physical universe has to be modeled.
And the theory certainly can work beautifully as intended in practice.
However, developers and designer tend to have huge problems with autolayout. Specifying what you want visually as a set of linear constraints is challenging. It is very easy to get very surprising outcomes, easy to overconstrain and underconstrain.
It's a very big sledgehammer aimed at some very delicate eggshells. Not just when it comes to understandability, but also when it comes to runtime performance.
With that, we could have Dreamweaver type layout working again.
That project seems to be more about the math than making layout easier. That's a problem with many academic projects. One thing I've liked about Autodesk products is that they often have complex math inside, completely hidden from the user. You see that in the CAD world, where the physical universe has to be modeled.