tl;dr: Be careful when using multi-column layout. Today I was finishing up a small portion of a project which involves generating PDFs with a multi-column layout from web content. Since we’re using the Prince formatter for the PDFs, there are no worries there, as Prince is one of the finest rendering engines out there, especially […]
Learn You a Flexbox for Great Good!
This article is outdated and no longer accurate. Find up-to-date information about flexbox at HTML5 Please. Yet Another Note (2012-05-13): It might be obvious that the flexbox spec is changing often, but a kind commenter suggested I add a note here regarding the fact that in the spec, the flex() function has been replaced by […]
It’s okay to do adaptive layout. Really.
Vasilis wrote yesterday about how he altered the layout of the Tropenmuseum website (English homepage) to adapt to different screen sizes. Then came the comments. Nothing really wrong with any of them, but the whole “layout is not the only thing that should concern you; performance/context/content/blah is also (maybe even more important)” thing is getting […]