&gt; He&#x27;s the guy who wasted a decade writing an ASCII-art based &quot;template layout module&quot;[1], which he was never able to persuade a single browser vendor to implement. It eventually got demoted from a working draft to a &quot;note&quot;, which is the W3C&#x27;s polite term for standards fanfiction.<p>This is because it was absorbed into the larger and more fleshed-out Grid specification, which is nearly release-ready in multiple browsers.  The ASCII art is actually really useful!