CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
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CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
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Re: CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
#2So basically 15 years late, CSS finally solves this problem. And coming to CSS in 15 years: adaptive design!
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#3Why is this problem so hard when CSS does so much for node positioning? Why not create a simpler standard once and for all?
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#4Does this include subgrids? As I understand, these are necessary for handling some basic use cases[1], but browser vendors were refusing to implement them?
[1] https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2016/02/12/subgrids-thinking-...
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#5why is this better than tables?
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#6It looks like this is getting released in the next major version of most browsers[1].
For Chrome, that means no sooner than 03/14/17. That version, Chrome 57, will also come with automatic background tab throttling[2].
Re: CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
#7> Short of taking care of sizing the elements yourself, sadly, you can't have both a vertical and horizontal rhythm by just using flexbox alone.
Accompanied by https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2017/01/css...
I'm pretty familiar with Flex but I simply don't understand and the diagram doesn't help. What does 'rhythm' mean in terms of layout?
Taking a guess (which I shouldn't be), I can make https://developers.google.com/web/updates/images/2017/01/css... with flex, but I'd have header and rest-of-page as columns, then have rest-of-page as a row with nav and content, then content as a column with content and footer. I think the article is saying:
> CSS grid means I can do it all at once rather than continually having to make rows and columns.
But it doesn't actually say that anywhere (and again I'm guessing).
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#8Why is this problem so hard when CSS does so much for node positioning? Why not create a simpler standard once and for all?
We had a simpler standard in 1995. It was called tables and it did this exceptionally well and more importantly was easy enough for even amateurs to understand. And then armchair demagogues decided that markup should no longer be used for markup, setting web layout back decades and creating the field of web designers whose major accomplishment was understanding stupid div hacks.
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#9why is this better than tables?
Because tables are bad!
Re: CSS Grid – Table layout is back. Be there and be square
#10It looks like this is getting released in the next major version of most browsers[1]. For Chrome, that means no sooner than 03/14/17. That version, Chrome 57, will also come with automatic background tab throttling[2]. [1] http://caniuse.com/#search=grid [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13471543
Except for mobile ( Android, iOS ), which is the main reason that we use responsive design anyway.
I will stick to flexbox for a while.