When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive?

The internet’s “Pinterest layout” fight is back: CSS Grid Lanes is nearly here, with the finalized syntax already in Safari Technology Preview and Firefox, Chrome, and Edge racing to catch up. The promise? Easy, automatic brick-style layouts in plain CSS. You can even start playing now via progressive enhancement—meaning old browsers still show something sensible while new ones get the fancy stuff. See Introducing CSS Grid Lanes for the hype.

But the community is split. One camp shrugs: “Just use flexbox,” says bob1029, waving off the masonry magic as overkill. Another camp cackles: Animats drops a classic meme—“The CSS crowd then spent two decades re-inventing tables”—as devs reminisce about the 2004 anti-table era while accusing modern CSS of a full-circle plot twist. Meanwhile, rmunn squints at the demo and argues parts look like “four columns with vertical flex,” kicking off a mini-lesson in how Grid Lanes aligns boxes across rows while flex stacks them per column.

And then there’s the drama. hollowturtle rails at standards committees holding the web back, threatening a blog of missing features. avmich jokes about “hexagonal lanes” and Penrose tiling, feeding the meme that designers will ask for everything. Translation: the feature is close, the mood is spicy, and the brick jokes are flying.