From the course: Advanced Responsive Layouts with CSS Flexbox
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Caveats when using Flexbox today - CSS Tutorial
From the course: Advanced Responsive Layouts with CSS Flexbox
Caveats when using Flexbox today
- Before we get into the nitty gritty, I'd be remiss if I didn't bring up a couple of really important caveats when we're working with Flexbox. As you can see here, on http://canuise.com, Flexbox is currently supported in all modern current browsers. But if you step back just one browser version, you'll see there's a lot less support, or no support at all. This is because Flexbox is about as bleeding edge as you can get with CSS. In fact, it's not fully ratified yet, and there's some components that are not working in any browsers because no one can agree on how they work. And even in modern browsers, there are some browsers, specifically Safari, that require prefixing to work. That means, if you're gonna use Flexbox in a current live project on the web, you need to make your site fully backwards compatible to browsers that either don't support Flexbox, or don't support the current markup for Flexbox. In fact, the current recommendation is to use Flexbox as a progressive enhancement…
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