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MODERN LAYOUTS Getting Out of Our Ruts THE WEB AHEAD thewebahead.net JEN SIMMONS @jensimmons #SFHTML5

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The most prominent result from the new eyetracking studies is not actually new. We simply confirmed for the umpteenth time that banner blindness is real. —Jakob Nielsen, August 20, 2007, Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings

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The medium shapes the medium.

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There’s a world of Graphic Design older than the web.

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vogue.com

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Layout should serve the content.

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MAGAZINES

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CSS Shapes

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Jeremy Keith

Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft.

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img { float: left; margin-right: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; shape-outside: circle(); }

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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
 Recommendation Proposed
 Recommendation Recommendation CSS Shapes level 1 March 20, 2014 w3.org/TR/css-shapes

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shape-outside: circle(); shape-outside: ellipse(); shape-outside: border-box; shape-outside: inset(0px round
 120px) border-box; shape-outside: url(http://
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labs.thewebahead.net

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github.com/jensimmons/thelayoutsahead

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img { width: 50%; float: left; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; shape-outside: ellipse(50% 50%); }

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img { width: 50%; float: left; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; border-radius: 100px; }

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img { width: 50%; float: left; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; border-radius: 100px; shape-outside:border-box; shape-margin: 30px; }

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img { width: 60%; float: left; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 30px; shape-outside: polygon(50% 0, 100% 50%, 50% 100%, 0 50%); }

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Shapes Level 1 — NOW! shape-outside: foo(); Shapes Level 2 — Later shape-inside: foo();

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Vote for CSS Shapes! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ show_bug.cgi?id=1040714 https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-internet- explorer-platform/suggestions/6263716-shapes

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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
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 Recommendation Recommendation CSS Exclusions Module Level 1 Oct 1, 2013 dev.w3.org/csswg/css-exclusions

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Use Absolute Positioning to place an item (or CSS Grid). Then add property wrap-flow: wrap-flow: both;

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main { transform: 
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h1 { float: left; padding-bottom: 200px; transform: 
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transform: rotate

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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
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 Recommendation Recommendation CSS Transforms Module level 1 Nov 26, 2013, “refining” w3.org/TR/css-transforms

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article { // column-count: 2; column-width: 200px; column-gap: 2em; }

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img { width: 100%; } article { column-width: 200px; column-gap: 2em; column-rule: 
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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
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 Recommendation Recommendation CSS Multicolumn Layout Module April 12, 2011 w3.org/TR/css-multicol

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Grace Hopper

Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language...

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img { float: left; margin-right: 2em; width: 50vw; height: 100vh; } h1 { font-size: 6vw; }

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header { border: 20px solid #000; background: yellow; padding: 3em 6em; } h1 { font-size: 10vw; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; }

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header { border: 20px solid #000; background: yellow; padding: 3em 6em; height: 100vh; } h1 { font-size: 10vw; margin-top: 0; text-align: center; }

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Anyplace you might use em, rem, %, px you can instead use: vh viewport height vw viewport width vmin smaller viewport number vmax larger viewport number

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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
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header { border: 20px solid #000; background: yellow; min-height: 100vh; } h1 { font-size: 10vw; margin: 0; }

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header { border: 20px solid #000; background: yellow; min-height: 100vh; display: flex; } h1 { font-size: 10vw; margin: auto; }

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header { border: 20px solid #000; background: yellow; min-height: 100vh; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; } h1 { font-size: 10vw; // margin: auto; }

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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
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 Recommendation Recommendation CSS Flexible Box Layout Sept 25, 2014 w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox

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Working Draft Last Call Candidate
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When?

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When Can I Use This in Production? (aka on a Real Website)

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Why Did You Tell Me About 
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Do Websites Need To Look Exactly The Same in Every Browser?

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DoWebsitesNeedToLook
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Progressive Enhancement

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When Can We Use This? Later Shapes Level 2 Exclusions Grid Maybe Never Regions What Was That 
 You Mumbled? Fragmentation Figures Overflow Now Shapes Level 1 Flexbox Viewport Units 5 Years Ago Transforms Multicolumn Layout Dynamic Grids 
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Hardest part is changing our thinking, not our CSS.

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Magazines and The Web

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Translate. Don’t Transfer.

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(*Totally stolen from Karen McGrane’s incredible talk, Adapting Ourselves to Adaptive Content.)

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The most dangerous phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ 
 — Grace Hopper

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One Last Story

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THE WEB AHEAD thewebahead.net JEN SIMMONS @jensimmons Thank you!