Introducing Flexbox
Flexbox addresses the shortfalls in each of the aforementioned display mechanisms. Here's a brief overview of its superpowers:
- It can easily center contents vertically.
- It can change the visual order of elements.
- It can automatically space and align elements within a box, automatically assigning available space between them.
- Items can be laid out in a row, a row going in the reverse direction, a column down the page, or a column going in reverse order up a page.
- It can make you look 10 years younger (probably not, but in low numbers of empirical tests (me), it has been proven to reduce stress).
The bumpy path to Flexbox
Flexbox has been through a few major iterations before arriving at the stable version we have today. For example, consider the changes from the 2009 version (http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-css3-flexbox-20090723/), the 2011 version (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-css3-flexbox-20111129/), and the...
