Viewport units have always been controversial and some of that is because of how mobile browsers have made things more complicated by having their own opinions about how to implement them.
Case in point: should the scrollbar be taken into account for the vw unit? What about a site’s navigation or page controls — should those count in the calculation? Then there are physical attributes of the devices themselves (hello, notch!) that can’t be overlooked.
First, a little context…
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Here’s a little example that Jeremy Keith used to use in his talks. It’s stuck with me as one of the coolest examples of progressive enhancement and Technology Being CoolTM around.
There is this musical notation format called abc. They don’t capitalize it. Kinda like npm, which I guess makes sense as it isn’t an acronym. But it is the name of something so it’s super awkward. Ughakdhk. Anyway.
The format itself is really cool. It’s super …
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A reader wrote in to tell me we should update our articles about SVG <use> elements. The attribute we always use for them, xlink:href, is deprecated. Indeed, MDN says:
That’s pretty strong language, hence the reader’s warning. This is a bit surprising to me, as the SVG 2 thing got a little weird. It looks like it did become a Candidate Recommendation though.
So…
<!-- This is old -->
<svg>
<use xlink:href="#whatever" />
</svg>
<!– This …
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