The Subgrid Hustle
So I watched Kevin's video's about the charge to get subgrid implemented on all browsers, and it seems like the fight is not over.
https://caniuse.com/?search=subgrid
Where do you hustle and bustle with e.g. Chrome developers to make them implement it? Is there a Google forum where you can send requests to get them to move?
I work in live arts and on our program page the content is basically cards, and subgrid would just simplify that page so much! Basically like this video here is showing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIQa9f0REtM
So yes, where can I get to work on the browser developers who needs to implement subgrid?
(And I'm sorry if this is not the right place for this kind of post. As I'm new here, please tell me where this question would be more appropriate if somewhere else ...)
Kevin Powell
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Easy and more consistent layouts using subgrid
Grid is amazing, but it has it's limitations, many of which are solved with subgrid! Subgrid is only currently supported in Firefox, and this video is part of my Subgrid Awareness Month where I'm looking at raising the profile of subgrid and getting people excited by it!
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they are actively working on subgrid. It will be implemented, but apperantly it just takes some time. Patience is key for now
https://chromestatus.com/feature/5663795354533888
Cool! And now I've learned about Chrome Platform Status as well. Thank you!
this might be a bit much for most peeps but if you want day to day email updates you can follow the implementation bug on monorail by staring it: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=618969
my understanding of why this has taken so long in chrome is that they needed to update their whole layout engine to get it performing to an acceptable degree.
Also, it's a Microsoft dev who's leading it. One of the advantages of Edge being on Chromium š
And yeah, it's part of their big engine overhaul. With the previous engine it wouldn't have been possible to implement subgrid. Might be part of what's slowing it down a little.
I'm guessing it'll end up behind a flag and/or in Canary sometime in Q1 of 2023
Cool! And so this means it'll be implemented into Opera as well, since that's also chromium?
Can't wait. It'll really help out so much.
Frankly, I'm not sure that I understand what the difference is with the things that get added piece meal to individual chromium browsers. But i'm betting that this isn't going to be one of those. It's a big structural layout thing that would probably be a giant pain for each vendor to have to do them selves. So i'm betting on all at once