#Once more unto the breach software

What Tinder is good at, what it seems designed to do, is make me much better at being single. 'Online dating bad' is, uh, really not a novel take that needs 6,500 words written about it in 2022.Īnd the closest it comes to making a novel point, is, I think: Anyway I finished the article and I really do not understand what point it's trying to make, if it's trying to make a point at all. The natural flow of our markup does most of the work for us we’ll just make a few small tweaks to constrain the size of our product images and center them beyond that size. The vertical layout really doesn’t need much finessing in CSS. They’ll switch between a vertical and a horizontal layout, whichever is best for the available space: Now that we have the page layout squared away, we can focus on the layout of the individual modules. featured on that container so we can scope our styles to it later on. We really only have to deal with the modules in two different contexts, and only at our highest breakpoint: the primary container and featured containers are the same width until the featured container turns into a sidebar. Here’s a very sparse demo illustrating that layout change. The overall page layout only changes at a single breakpoint, where the “featured item” container shifts to a sidebar. The whole page is made up of product modules that occupy a large central container, and one identical “featured item” module that occupies a secondary container. But the reality isn’t as clear-cut as it might sound.įor the sake of discussion, let’s say we’ve been tasked with building a landing page for a store that sells Whitworth-based tools, a measurement system known only to those brave enough-or foolhardy enough-to own a very old vehicle of British make. Using pattern libraries and tools like Pattern Lab by Brad Frost and Dave Olsen, we should be able to style the most fundamental parts of a website in a vacuum, assemble them into cohesive modules independent of the page, and then include them in the page layout in whatever contexts they were meant to occupy. The ideal responsive website is a system of flexible, modular components that can be repurposed to serve in multiple contexts. That sentence isn’t the easiest thing in the world to parse, but it’s something I’m betting we’re all familiar with in practice.

Styling a module meant to occupy multiple containers with viewport-based media queries means scoping that module’s styles to all the containers that it might occupy. We’ve changed the “I” in “RICG” from “Images” to “Issues,” and set our sights high right out of the gate: we aim to change the way we all write CSS. Now we have options for smarter asset delivery based on any combination of viewport size, pixel density, and file format support.Īfter all that hard-won progress, there was no sense in packing up our GitHub organization and going home. It was a long and failure-riddled process, but it’s what got us to the solutions we have today: not just one new element, but a whole suite of enhancements to the img element as well. But designers and developers had spoken: we wanted a feature that stood to save our users a tremendous amount of bandwidth, and we carved out a seat at the same table as browser representatives and long-established standards bodies to make that feature happen.

#Once more unto the breach software

Changing up a feature as old-and in software terms, as stable-as the img element was no small request. It isn’t hard to see why the going was so tough. 3 days of design, code, and content for web & UX designers & devs.