[TabAtkins]

> He's the guy who wasted a decade writing an ASCII-art based "template layout module"[1], which he was never able to persuade a single browser vendor to implement. It eventually got demoted from a working draft to a "note", which is the W3C's polite term for standards fanfiction.

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!