Re:The end of the clearfix hack?
by Xcelerate on Thursday January 26, 2017 @08:12AM
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Is there any reason to not use flexboxes nowadays? I've still been using floats, inline-block, etc. so my websites are compatible with older browsers, but I would rather just switch to using all of the new CSS properties.
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There are a couple of bugs with IE and older versions of the stock (deprecated) Android browser using flexbox, but I think they're all handled easily enough. Also, they don't work with IE9 - God forbid you're still supporting that browser.
Re:The end of the clearfix hack?
by robin_reala on Thursday January 26, 2017 @10:44AM
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Still supporting IE8, and testing components in IE7. 150k visits last month from IE7, sigh.
Re:The end of the clearfix hack?
by squeaky-clean on Thursday January 26, 2017 @12:34PM
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Like 5% of our traffic comes from IE 6-8.... Thank god for jQuery. And, I can't recall the percentage, but a surprisingly large amount from the stock Android browser (not Chrome, the one that ships on really old phones).
We have internal support for IE9. Our non-internal traffic for it is almost non-existent. We were getting a small portion of traffic from the stock Android browser as well, but we were finally able to convince them to drop support for it.
150k? That's insane. What's the location for those visits? I'm kind of intrigued.
Re:The end of the clearfix hack?
by robin_reala on Thursday January 26, 2017 @11:55AM
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Well, that’s out of ~90m visits a month total. This is for GOV.UK, so I suspect most of them are government internal.
Do you think Gov.uk should be supporting that 0.25% of users, seems like it's probably a waste of resources. Can't you just settle for graceful degradation? Is there some DDA angle (supporting screenreaders) or other mitigation that's not obvious?
Re:The end of the clearfix hack?
by robin_reala on Thursday January 26, 2017 @03:04PM
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It’s not about percentages, it’s about numbers. We don’t actually go out of our way to support it on pages and we don’t tell other departments to test in it, but if you’re building a pattern library it makes sense to do the hard work up front. In terms of graceful degradation, yep. In our current patterns project we’ve dropped all JS for IE7 beyond the HTML5shim.
Our support schedule is at https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/technology/designing-for-d...