The grid app contains plumbing for a very basic dynamic widget grid system.
grid was originally designed for the URY front page, which is composed of various rectangular sections that each display a separate view. It was intended to separate mechanism from policy by allowing the website templates to contain no information about the specific make-up of the front site grid and the exact positions of parts of it.
At time of writing, grid is very feature-poor and inflexible, having effectively been created as a quick method of making the aforementioned home page dynamic. However, it is hoped that it can be generalised in the future to other types of widget grid.
The implementation-level side of the grid framework is contained in a template tag library, grid_tags.