I feel like I work on a different web.

> Note: With great power comes great responsibility! With Houdini you could invent your own masonry, grid, or regions implementation, but doing so is not necessarily the best idea. The CSS Working group does a lot of work to ensure every feature is performant, handles all edge cases, and considers security, privacy, and accessibility.

Sounds like a lot of work to display a bloody list.

My understanding is that these Houdini features are aimed more at big library/framework authors. It's not for "every day users".

It's more expected that you'll use things that use Houdini under the hood as an implementation detail.

A new layout mode (like CSS Grid) isn't available yet? This allows someone to write a polyfill for it. That's neat!

> A new layout mode (like CSS Grid) isn't available yet? This allows someone to write a polyfill for it. That's neat!

this was my first thought, too. We have polyfills for js features that don't yet exist in a lot of browsers, but polyfills for css are either very complicated or just don't exist in some cases.

Will there be a JS polyfill for Houdini?

Seems there is for parts of it already