Item flow: a potential concept for masonry layouts

Jen Simmons and her team at WebKit have just posted a new article about a proposed new unified concept for layout: Item Flow.

CSS Grid and Flexbox brought incredible layout tools to the web, but they don’t yet do everything a designer might want. One of those things is a popular layout pattern called “masonry” or “waterfall,” which currently still requires a Javascript library to accomplish.

The full article is below and I won't lie, reading parts of it hurt my head. But it's an exciting concept that will create a new set of unified properties and values for Flexbox and Grid.