NIniutech·Dec 30, 2018
IE 10 supports an ealier version of CSS Grid Layout: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ie/2011/04/14/ie10-platform...
or you can use a polyfill: https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill/
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FremyCompany / css-grid-polyfill
css-grid-polyfill
A working implementation of css grids for current browsers.
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What it is
A working implementation of css grids for current browsers.
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Observed mentions: 2016-12-22 10:34:55 UTC to 2018-12-30 01:42:27 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2018 | 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mar 2018 | 2018-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2018 | 2018-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2018 | 2018-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2018 | 2018-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2018 | 2018-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2018 | 2018-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2018 | 2018-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2018 | 2018-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2018 | 2018-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2018 | 2018-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesWhere? The only one I see is https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill which is extremely out of date.
In Branching Layouts With EaseFor those less-than-brand-new browsers, there's at least one polyfill (https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill).
Not ideal, sure (especially if you're JavaScript-averse, like I am), but it's a start.
In Shoelace.css – A back to the basics CSS starter kitIf you've been following CSS grid at all, or if you look up anything related to it, you'll probably encounter something written by Rachel Andrew. She's been doing an incredible job at documenting and promoting CSS grid.
In the past she wrote a CSS grid polyfill [0], but sadly it never got updated to the latest version of the spec. It'd be an easier sell if you could polyfill it reasonably on some older browsers, even if performance suffered a bit.
Right now the last holdout is Edge [1], which is funny because they were the first to ship the older spec, going back as far as IE10 or IE11. Luckily, the next version will be shipping the latest spec.
I've noticed autoprefixer [2] supports a grid option. I'd love a guide that explained any incompatibilities between the two versions. Getting a mostly working grid on IE11 and Edge would probably
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make it an easier sell for many.
When flexbox started growing popular there were guides showing you could support most features on IE10 and beyond with little effort if you used autoprefixer. Since there are equivalent versions of most attributes on older browsers, you just had to be aware of bugs and gotchas. For example, the default value for flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis (and their older equivalents) changed between versions, so if you always had to set them. In addition to any incompatibilities between versions, all implementations were buggy, so you had to be aware of bugs and their workarounds. Luckily, they're all well documented on the flexbugs [3] repo.
Considering grid is more complicated than flexbox, I wouldn't be surprised to find it has a few bugs. Does anyone know if there's a gridbugs repo that developers can track?
EDIT: After a quick search, I found a blog post [4] talking about supporting the older version.
[0] https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill/
[1] http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-grid
[2] https://github.com/postcss/autoprefixer
[3] https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs
[4] https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2016/11/26/should-i-try-...
I used it in a personal project (http://loyaltonmuseum.org/), since it made things a lot simpler. Few browsers support it natively, but there's a polyfill for it (https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill) which supposedly supports just about all modern browsers (including IE9+).
In Ask HN: Who is using css grid in production?There's a polyfill that should help on unsupported browsers: https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill/
It ain't perfect, but it works pretty decently.
In Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS gridThanks. I was unaware of this particular term which was also a good keyword for google.
There is an alpha polyfill effort here. https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill
Regarding speed, here's the author's take.
> I wouldn’t say this polyfill is slow by any measure, but your mileage may vary on mobile devices. My advice would be to use the polyfill only on tablets and desktops at the moment, after you have tested the compatibility and performance extensively on a representative number of devices.
Also, there are js layout libraries used with similar functionality, so one can expect that it is possible to implement this feature with the same efficiency.
In Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS gridYou can play with CSS grid today on most (all?) modern browsers, it's just locked behind a flag. I'm extremely excited about it. As I understand it, it should go live on all major browsers next year. This means that hopefully there won't be spec incompatibility issues like we saw with flexbox.
If you want to learn more, css-tricks [0] has a great guide for grid.
Once CSS grid is available, you might be able to start using it everywhere if you're willing to ship the polyfill to legacy browsers. Right now there's a polyfill for an older version of CSS grid [1], but the author has said [2] on Github they expect to get a new release out by around February 2017!
I've only dabbled with CSS grid and one of my concerns is performance. I'm not sure what level of performance we can expect with the initial release. I recall reading about mobile perf
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ormance with flexbox not being great. Hopefully history won't repeat itself. If anyone has more experience with grid, I'd love to hear your insights.
[0] https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
[1] https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill
[2] https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill/issues/37#...