Aug 9, 2021 14:48:03 GMT fossa said:

Aug 1, 2021 19:51:52 GMT selkie said:

wait serious q is there any reason these days to use float over flexbox/grid outside of cross compatibility/dragging-IE's-corpse-along stuff?? outside of like, aligning block elements like images n shit with text i basically never use it 😭

speaking of cross compatibility, coding confession: f**k safari all my homies hate safari

realizing no one actually answered ur original q here but as far as i know from some quick googling:

float's fine for small elements, like aligning an icon to the left or right of a post. it doesn't offer the precision of flex & grid or the adaptability, but if you're not looking to have something perfectly centered or do a Specific Thing, then float's a super easy & light weight way to do it. i think the main issue with float (outside of the fact you can't align it specifically to top or bottom) is it can be a little uhh funky?? i've personally never had an issue with it but it can act up - especially if you have multiple floated elements near each other. 

As someone who learned float before tables back in the veeeeery late days of V4 and built an entire skin using float formatting, 'float can be a little funky' gave me war flashbacks. But honestly, yeah, I still use float for little things like what Fossa said. If I'm aligning more than one element, flex or grid is always the better option, but for half the write-up, I can align a single item to visually the same effect with float.

Heck you, though, tables. Friendship officially ended.

I don't expect people to skin responsively, but—is it too much to ask that they try for custom bbcodes and inline styling? At least use max-width so posts don't bleed off the page on mobile, which on pb can't even scroll.

I have to do mockups in Figma. If you could see all the draft iterations, it would take far too long to code and pivot between every variation. Plus some scrapped designs will often inspire other ones

Double post: procrastinating by making things I'll never use is my jam. Bonus if they're template types other people don't use either

I was helping my friend with a private site skin, and I just spent time trying to edit a mini profile, thinking nothing was happening, only to discover I was editing the wrong skin. lol