Note from 2 September 2021

Anyone knows why in #Firefox sometimes the button in the bottom of https://nicolas-hoizey.com/archives/ is outside its container, while everything is fine in #Chrome? 🤔

Maybe a CSS Grid issue?

Rendering issue in Firefox

Rendering issue in Firefox

Everything is fine in Chrome

Everything is fine in Chrome


  1. screenshot of Layout & Grid in Design Systems

    Brad Frost avatar Brad Frost

    Layout & Grid in Design Systems

    This interdisciplinary disconnect around grid’s mental model affects how teams execute grid. In a broken, unidirectional, “developer handoff” process, design comps are treated as sacrosanct, and developers see that 12-column semi-transparent pink guideline as a hard requirement that must implemented exactly as articulated by the static design tool. This is how a “how to do a 12-column grid in HTML/CSS?” Google search ultimately led to massive success for tools like Bootstrap. Despite the introduction of many new CSS technologies and layout techniques over many years, this antiquated 12-column mental model still dominates a lot of conversations around layout and grid.

  2. screenshot of gridless.design

    Donnie D'Amato avatar Donnie D'Amato

    gridless.design

    The web is good at these things, just not in the ways that designers have been accustomed to working. We'll take a look at how we got here and how we might change our perspective. Let's think outside of the grid and allow other guidelines to provide a comprehensive layout.