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CSS Grid One Year On

A year ago today, Firefox was the first browser to ship into stable their CSS Grid implementation. Closely followed by Chrome and Safari. It’s been quite a year for my favourite layout method. It has been fascinating to see how people have adopted Grid, and the different ways people are developing with the specification. It … CSS Grid One Year On

Weeknotes 5

First conference of 2018 was Smashing Conference in London. I had a new talk to present and was also doing a one day workshop. I find workshops exhausting, although I love the immediate feedback and the chance to see people get concepts right there in the room. The Smashing Conference videos are already online, you … Weeknotes 5

Weeknotes 4

Slides, slides and more slides. That really is what I’ve been working on this week, getting all these talks and workshops sorted out. I’ve also written three, as yet unpublished articles, and started work on some examples for the MDN Web Docs. Ran over 30 miles this week, half of that as a long run … Weeknotes 4

Weeknotes 3

I am well into conference preparation now. Smashing Conf London is just over a week away, and I’ll be presenting a new talk and updated CSS Layout workshop. I’m also working on a new talk for designers on Grid and other new layout methods. I’ll be presenting that at UX Immersion: Interactions. CSS Layout News … Weeknotes 3

Weeknotes 2

This week Widget the cat had to go to the vet hospital for an operation. He is home now, quite angry at us, but seems to be a lot better than he was before the op. No flying lessons due to the continued suboptimal weather, but I’ve been to Cross Fit twice and run a … Weeknotes 2

Weeknotes 1

I have something of a tendency to do stuff and move on, straight into whatever is next. I thought in 2018 I would have a bit of an experiment and write these weekly notes. Here is the first one, covering a little more than a week due to the weird Christmas getting back to work … Weeknotes 1

So that was 2017

Time for another of these roundup posts where I look back, baffled at how quickly time has passed. TripIt tells me that I spent 158 days on the road last year, visiting 56 cities in 16 countries and travelled 184,988 km. That did include a holiday in Nice, but otherwise my travel was conference or … So that was 2017

How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items?

The CSS Working Group would like your opinion. There is a longstanding issue in both the CSS Grid Layout and Flexbox specifications. From the CSS Grid specification: Percentage margins and paddings on grid items can be resolved against either: their own axis (left/right percentages resolve against width, top/bottom resolve against height), or, the inline axis … How should we resolve percentage margins and padding on grid and flex items?

CSS Survey Roundup

As part of preparing for the An Event Apart talk that I’m giving for the next few shows, I published a survey. I wanted to have some more data on how people were using CSS and how they felt about new CSS features. This post is an initial roundup of some of the things I … CSS Survey Roundup