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flexie
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doctyper / flexie

flexie

Legacy support for the CSS3 Flexible Box Model

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What it is

Legacy support for the CSS3 Flexible Box Model

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-09-26 05:24:13 UTC to 2013-10-27 19:09:21 UTC.

012012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMar 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2013

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20132013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20132013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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recuter·Oct 27, 2013
What is this magical flexbox polyfill?! This isn't quite so simple as rewriting CSS gradient syntax to some defunct oldIE filters or something. Its a whole layout algorithm, I'd love to use this! Last I heard a flexbox polyfill was barely a concept. Please, my good man, link to the repo! Edit: I hoped the parent meant something new but I think he means https://github.com/doctyper/flexie "Flexie enables the 2009 Flexbox model. You're probably looking for the updated spec. There is currently no polyfill for the new spec." There's a bunch of caveats and it was finicky when I played with it. The beauty of flexbox is that you can throw complex layouts at the browser and it would handle it natively, this seems more for simple pages and didn't work out for me back when I tried it. :( Bah, humbug.
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