Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes
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- ▪Developers were also trying to grapple with a new medium and generally found that flowing text within a defined space was much easier when the geometric coordinates of that space were kept as simple as possible.
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| Publication time | Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:32:00 +0200 |
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); devops Fresh CSS constructs move web design beyond ticky-tacky little boxes Let us bury the web's 30-year layout reliance on rectangles Joab Jackson Joab Jackson SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND CLOUD REPORTER Published tue 29 Sep 2026 // 07:32 UTC READ MORE Firefox 156 arrives with a forest of forks in its wake 9 days ago Admins, you've been warned: The clock is ticking on Edge's IE Mode 10 days ago Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code 19 days ago…
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