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Hasty Treat - Old Browsers, Fallbacks and Polyfills - Part 2
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In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes continue a three-part series about old browsers, fallbacks and polyfills. In part two, they talk specifically about CSS Grid, Flexbox, new features and fallbacks, and how to use them.
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Show Notes 3:08 - CSS Grid and Flexbox
Flexbox old spec
Flexbox new spec
CSS Grid
Some popular options for supporting for supporting CSS Grid and/or Flexbox: Just serve the mobile layout
Display block
Separate layout that you will eventually delete
Can I Use
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
Modernizr
CSS3, Please!
Autoprefixer
12:38 - CSS Variables
Double define
Just like Grid, unknown def will be ignored and fallback to CSS
CSS Houdini
17:00 - Fallback Code
@supports
Display block then display grid
Feature Testing
Detect the browser as a last resort
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