> We held a vote that you weren’t aware of and decided that masonry was out. If you cared, you should have participated in the vote that you were not aware was happening. It’s too late to change it.

I think that’s an exceptionally uncharitable description of what happened. This is a decision the WebKit team has been repeatedly publicly asking people to participate in for over 18 months.

> Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, aka “Masonry” layout

> P.S. About the name

> It’s likely masonry is not the best name for this new value. […] The CSSWG is debating this name in [this issue]. If you have ideas or preferences for a name, please join that discussion.

— https://webkit.org/blog/15269/help-us-invent-masonry-layouts...

> Help us choose the final syntax for Masonry in CSS

> We also believe that the value masonry should be renamed.

> As described in our previous article, “masonry” is not an ideal name, since it represents a metaphor, and not a direct description of its purpose. It’s also not a universally used name for this kind of layout. Many developers call it “waterfall layout” instead, which is also a metaphor.

> Many of you have made suggestions for a better name. Two have stood out, collapse and pack as in — grid-template-rows: collapse or grid-template-rows: pack. Which do you like better? Or do you have another suggestion? Comment on [this issue] specifically about a new value name (for the Just Use grid option).

— https://webkit.org/blog/16026/css-masonry-syntax/#footnote-1

> [css-grid-3] Renaming masonry keyword

— https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9733

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