Chrome 57 Arrives With CSS Grid Layout and API Improvements (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday March 10, 2017 @02:40AM from the browser-updates dept.

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.

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Re:Chrome _is_ the standard! by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-10 04:00 · Score: 0, Interesting

It doesn't matter that Chrome is the defacto standard,
Uh, yes, it absolutely does matter that it's the standard. Look, people don't care about some ivory tower view of the world, they care about how things actually are down here on earth. Web developers are going to develop for what people use to... gasp... to browse the web. People use Chrome, far more than any other browser, and that is growing month over month. You can be as out of touch with the world as you want and that's fine but people who do this professionally have to live in the real world and provide the best support for what their customers are using. That means Chrome both for mobile and desktop.
You develop for Chrome, you test on Safari, and everything else is not worth the time to deal with. Niche browsers like Firefox can either support what the big boys do or fade into ever increasing irrelevance, something it's almost done with already. Consider it as browser evolution in action.