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Chrome 57 Arrives With CSS Grid Layout and API Improvements (venturebeat.com)
Google has launched Chrome 57 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. From a report on VentureBeat: Among the additions is CSS Grid Layout, API improvements, and other new features for developers. You can update to the latest version now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. Chrome is arguably more than a browser: With over 1 billion users, it's a major platform that web developers have to consider. In fact, with Chrome's regular additions and changes, developers have to keep up to ensure they are taking advantage of everything available. Chrome 57 implements CSS Grid Layout, a two-dimensional grid-based layout system for responsive user interface design. Elements within the grid can be specified to span multiple columns or rows, plus they can also be named so that layout code is easier to understand. The goal is to give developers more granular control, especially as websites are increasingly accessed on various screen sizes, so they can slowly move away from complex code that is difficult to maintain.
Yeah, and 15 years ago Internet Explorer and ActiveX was the 'defacto standard'.
We all know how well that turned out. Anyone who isn't very new to computing, should know very well that things *will* change, and they will change *drastically*. HTTP and HTML has survived(ish) the test of time *precisely* because they are formal standards that are independent of a specific product and company.
Every single time people have tied themselves to a specific product du jour, they've been bitten very hard on the ass. Every. Single. Time.
It doesn't matter what W3C "standards" have been written. They're useless to most web users and developers until they've actually been implemented in Chrome.
This is the bit that compelled me to comment. The sorry state of web technology today is precisely because people like you think you're too good to follow something as archaic as "standards". You think you know better. The end result is *everything* is getting balkanized to hell, security is going down the toilet, and compatibility is turning into a bad joke.
Here's a truth bomb for you: You *arn't* as good as you think you are, and you *don't* know better.
Standards exist for a reason, and if you are unable to recognize that fact, then you have no business developing anything technology-related.