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Karen Menezes

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Code Ecology
Harnessing flexbox for today’s web apps

on 6 March, 2015

I’m using flexbox in a big way for a web app that I’m currently working on, and I am very pleased with how it handles layout and box calculations intelligently. Small modules work very well with flexbox, and you can use floats and other tools for broader sections of the layout.

Published in Smashing Magazine, March 2015.

Floats, Inline Block or Display Table? Or Flexbox?

on 13 April, 2014

Most grids and front-end frameworks I've seen insist on floats for all layouting. But sometimes, you don't want floats... You may occasionally be better off with inline-block, rarely display-table, and if your browser support is ideal, flexbox. Let's look at some advantages and disadvantages of popular layouting methods for responsive sites.

Equal Heights with Flexbox

on 15 October, 2013

I’ve been playing with flexbox for a while. I love it. It’s going to save so many kittens. This is going to be the first of a series of demos of what flexbox is capable of.