Issue 304

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On with the newsletter, and the things I have read this week.

Rachel Andrew, CSS Layout News.

News

IE11 to be retired

Microsoft have announced the retirement and end of support for IE11 in June 2022, with the Edge "IE mode" to be used to access legacy applications built only for IE. I'm not all that sure that the official end-of-life of a product really makes it go away, but it's another reason not to spend too much of your development time trying to make things look identical in IE11.

Learn

The new responsive

An article and video explaining some of the new ways that we can respond to user needs. Responsive design is now not only about screen size.

Should DevTools teach the cascade?

Stefan Judis writes about developer education, and whether DevTools could help to teach how the cascade works.

fit-content and fit-content()

Fairly recently I detangled these two over at MDN, as they had become somewhat intertangled in the docs. Here ppk writes about them, and their browser support.

CSS Layout Guides on MDN

I was doing some tidying up of the guides section on MDN, and created a big page listing all of the CSS Layout material on the site. There is quite a lot!

Can we create a resize hack with container queries?

I'm a fan of this sort of article, playing with something and seeing what possibilities there are is a great way to learn.