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In Part 1 of this series, I debunked a few misconceptions that many people have around the Internet Explorer (IE) implementation of CSS grid. This article builds on that knowledge. It would be best to go back and read that article first if you haven’t already. Today I’m going to be tackling the biggest misconception of all: that utilizing the IE implementation of CSS grid is extremely difficult. You can easily use CSS grid in IE right now without having to give it any sort of crappy fallback layout. It really isn't that hard. Article Series: Debunking Common IE Grid Misconceptions CSS Grid and the new Autoprefixer (This Post) Faking an auto-placement grid with gaps (Coming Soon!) Giving IE a crappy fallback layout is a bit of a tough sell to clients. It...

My take on trying to be helpful to a support staff. One bit is just as relevant for learning development: Writing out a ticket will help you figure out the problem. Sometimes when you have to take a second to collect your thoughts and explain something, the problem will become clear and maybe even the solution. Oftentimes, a bug is a bug and just needs to be fixed — but sometimes your support ticket might actually be something you can sort out for yourself and writing things out might be the first step toward that. You know what they say, the best way to learn something is to teach it. Just replace "ticket" with "forum topic" or whatever, on something like Spectrum. Direct Link to Article — PermalinkThe post Writing Good Support Requests appeared first on CSS-Tricks. Source: CSS-tr...

There is this sentiment that you don't design the homepage of a site first. For most sites, it's an anomaly. It's unlike any other page and not something to base the patterns you use for the rest of the site or help inform other pages. You might call it a one-off.1 One-offs are OK! A world without one-offs is very boring. But a site chock-full of one-offs leads to familiar problems: inconsistency and non-reusable CSS that leads to bloating and maintainers that don't really know what's used and what isn't. What are we to do? Brad Frost thought about this recently with his article Where to put one-off components?: It’s quite likely that individual applications contain components that fit the very real needs of a specific application (think calculators, holiday-season parallax hero units, ...