George Byte
Tech lead/Full stack web engineer deeply in love with front-end development.
What's so hard about polyfilling CSS?
Let's find out by writing one ourselves…
width: calc(random * 100%);
width: calc(0.2937 * 100%);
Things the browser already does:
CSS polyfills will inevitably be:
Houdini API
Give developers the power to extend CSS itself, and the tools to hook into the styling and layout process of a browser’s rendering engine.
smashingmagazine.com/2016/03/houdini-maybe-the-most-exciting-development-in-css-youve-never-heard-of/
Polyfilling JS - Use Babel to make transition to the native API more seamless and graceful
Babel is here to stay because of how new language features are added to JS (TC39 committee)
By George Byte
Tech lead/Full stack web engineer deeply in love with front-end development.