Schedule: Responsive web design sessions

2017 brings a massive change in the tools for laying out websites and applications with CSS. Rachel Andrew offers an introduction to new CSS tools such as Flexbox and Grid and explains how existing methods fit into this new system as well as how to approach support for older browsers. Read more.

Rachel Andrew shares a modern roadmap for browser support that enables you to create sites that can enhance themselves as the platform improves—without leaving people stuck on older browsers in the cold. Read more.

With ever-more-accessible hardware and native support in web platforms, virtual reality is set to become part of our daily lives, both as consumers and developers. Ben Foxall explores the features and capabilities of WebVR, showing how it can be used to create meaningful (and useful) applications, and explains how uniquely complementary this is to the rest of our web platform. Read more.

Building linear layouts in CSS has been hard. Tables are bad, inline-block has quirks, and floats are insufficient. Thankfully CSS Flexbox enables us to elegantly solve our layout problems. Ben Ilegbodu dives into Flexbox, covering what it is, why you should use it, how it’s configured, and where it’s most useful. Read more.