Issue 9
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Issue 9
This week I am off to France to speak about Grid Layout at Paris Web. I also have upcoming CSS Layout workshops planned - at Future of Web Apps in London and Falsy Values in Warsaw. I believe both still have some spaces available.
CSS Layout News
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Enhancing Responsiveness with Flexbox (CSS Conf EU 2015)
Zoe Gillenwater presented her talk on Enhancing Responsiveness with Flexbox at CSS Conf EU, here are the slides.
What forces layout / reflow?
All of the listed properties or methods, when requested/called in JavaScript, will trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout. This is also called reflow or layout thrashing, and is common performance bottleneck.
We spent a week making Trello boards load extremely fast. Here’s how we did it. - Fog Creek Blog
For a real-world example of how avoiding layout thrashing can speed up your application, read this post from the Fog Creek blog.
Experiment: Using Flexbox Today - Chris Wright
A post with some nice examples of Flexbox usage.
Interesting
Flexbox Quote Bricks
A nice CodePen example of Flexbox used to display an image alongside a quote.
Patterns — Responsive Web Design
These are a series of patterns that are useful when putting together your website designs and solving difficult problems that people have already solved for you.
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