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1. Rich Holman 10 min later

   @zachleat yes! Easy to forget. I remember seeing flexbox proposed, had a little cry and carried on using float for 5 years.

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 min later

      @dogwonder somehow I blinked and container queries were supported in all the evergreens 😅

      1. Rich Holman 19 min later

         @zachleat 👀😍

      2. Elliott 5 hr later

         @zachleat @dogwonder I'm on the fence on CQs. Maybe I just need to really lock down my patterns because it's very easy to make a page that has a jumpy layout every time you resize the window a pixel

   2. Chris Ferdinandi 46 min later

      @dogwonder @zachleat OMG YES THIS!

      I ended up skipping flexbox altogether for a while and jumped right into CSS Grid before I realized they do two different things.

      1. Rich Holman 1 hr later

         @cferdinandi @zachleat 😀 I still feel they might take CSS grid away from us. It’s too good.

2. Robb 24 min later

   @zachleat To think that future gerations of web developers may never know the joy and calm relief that .clearfix brought

   1. Zach Leatherman 28 min later

      @Robb to think I’ve been using .clearbroke all this time

3. tbeseda 29 min later

   @zachleat Yeah I was thinking about that this AM. These days the worst case is usually a user hasn't restarted Chrome.app in a month or so.

   1. tbeseda 30 min later

      @zachleat Even Safari gets updated out-of-band of the OS now. Finally

      1. Zach Leatherman 34 min later

         @tbeseda 🎉🎉🎉🎉

      2. Thomas Broyer 1 hr later

         @tbeseda @zachleat Even on iOS? 🤔

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5. Thomas Broyer 1 hr later

   @zachleat Except for Firefox ESR… (still quicker than Internet Explorer though 😂)