With the introduction of CSS3 we’ve seen huge advancements in web technology, and the last few years have felt like golden ones for anyone working on the Web. One great addition that hasn’t been talked up enough is viewport units. They’re anew kind of CSS3 unit that allow you to size elements relative to the viewport. Browser support ... The browser support for viewport units is surprisingly good. There’s full support in all the latest desktop browsers. IE has had full support since IE9 (although...
Math is a necessary (if not always welcome) tool in our programming languages. We use it constantly to make all kinds of dynamic decisions. Until recently, it wasn’t available in CSS without a pre-processor; however the introduction of the calc function to CSS3 provides a way of running Math calculations natively which increases performance and even enables mixed units. Browser support ... Unusually, in the case of the calc function browser support is actually pretty good: on the desktop it’s...