MMmmnumbp·Jul 4, 2014
https://github.com/the-gss/engine/blob/master/dist/gss.js#L1...
This holy if statement from the gods..
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GSS engine
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesThe output from PEG.js for this is... intense:
https://github.com/the-gss/engine/blob/master/dist/gss.js#L1...
(scroll down a few thousand lines to see what I mean)
In Constraint CSSIt does not appear work in IE9/10 yet:
https://github-camo.global.ssl.fastly.net/5ee9a304678365bec6...
from their github page:
https://github.com/the-gss/engine
In Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the future>What browsers does it support?
They have that on the github page: https://github.com/the-gss/engine.
As for the rest, it looks like this is early days. The menu on the left does tell you at least how to get it installed and how the VFL language works. I wouldn't quite call it "tutorial" level, but it's probably enough to start hacking.
Very exciting stuff though.
In Grid Style Sheets – CSS polyfills from the futureI agree about using Grids, in fact we're currently working on a Grid Layout Module polyfill, but with constraint-based sugar. Really excited for this one, relative constraints can get tedious, abstract grid-based primitives make high level layouts much more intuitive.
Concerning Flexbox, it is not a lie! Flexbox is still dependent on the source order / parent-child relationships within the DOM. With constraints, you get true source order independence, so you can layout any group of elements within any other regardless of DOM structure... When I get time, will push demos on how to simulate Flexbox and show examples not possible with Flexbox...
Amazingly, IE 11 just worked, yes need to tackle lower versions... Unfortunately, there is no other way to accomplish GSS's constraint-based CSS extensions without a runtime replacement for the b
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rowser's float-based layout. That being said, precompiling the computed results for a static page for all screen sizes, thus eliminating the need of 99% of the runtime, will make it viable for the jankiest of browsers, and resolved to ID selectors would be potentially faster than native language extensions!
We're still in very early days of the lib, specific issues and comments welcome on the repo:
https://github.com/the-gss/engine