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Flexbox is supported in all versions of IE that Microsoft themselves still support (IE 11 and up). You can still support it in IE10 too, albeit with a different

by kilian 10y ago

Flexbox is supported in all versions of IE that Microsoft themselves still support (IE 11 and up). You can still support it in IE10 too, albeit with a different syntax. That means even windows installations that haven't been updated since 2012 will support flexbox.

hackerboos 10y ago
CanIUse reports bugs in IE11. Anyone had issues in day-to-day development?
- freshyill 10y ago
  Check here for a pretty comprehensive listing of flexbox-related bugs. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs I haven't come across anything in IE 10 or 11 that I haven't been able to work around pretty easily.
- thirdsun 10y ago
  Of course. there are lots of minor issues and surprising results with flexbox in modern IE and Firefox once you use it in more advanced ways. See https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs for an overview. Nevertheless I use flexbox almost everywhere. It's a great system to arrange anything from general layout to smaller components. There's absolutely no way that I'll deal with any kind of hacks to get basic things like vertical centering right.
- ggurgone 10y ago
  Most of them are fixed in https://github.com/suitcss/components-grid https://github.com/suitcss/components-grid
fizzbatter 10y ago
Unfortunately that still leaves out a ton of users. I know that's a tiny percentage, but tiny nonetheless. The shop i'm heading to soon has a small number of clients (<5k, each being very important), but with many using ancient systems. IE8/9 iirc. We use Table layouts for our "old compatible" product, and i don't think we'll ever move on from that. Some clients just refuse to update it seems. Luckily (for my sanity) we have a "new age" product that we can use responsive layouts for.
- gbog 10y ago
  "Refuse to update" well yes, I would too, refuse to do something that is notoriously breaking a lot of working stuff for no known benefit. For example java applets developped for IE6 that is vital, because it drives the 10 years old exotic scanner, and nobody dares touching it.
- gotofritz 10y ago
  Supporting old browsers should be treated as a special case though, like "people with js disabled" or something. Then of course you don't use flexbox (or serve different css fles or have a scaled down design or whatever). But the "norm" is that flexbox is now safe for most users.
NKCSS 10y ago
It's still common to find Citrix environments with IE 8/9 here in .nl healthhcare sector
- javajosh 10y ago
  Someone should write an exploit for IE 8/9 that upgrades them to Firefox.
  - talmand 10y ago
    Google did that back in the day with Chrome. https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-get... Discontinued though.

by kilian 10y ago

hackerboos 10y ago

CanIUse reports bugs in IE11. Anyone had issues in day-to-day development?

freshyill 10y ago
Check here for a pretty comprehensive listing of flexbox-related bugs. https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs I haven't come across anything in IE 10 or 11 that I haven't been able to work around pretty easily.
thirdsun 10y ago
Of course. there are lots of minor issues and surprising results with flexbox in modern IE and Firefox once you use it in more advanced ways. See https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs https://github.com/philipwalton/flexbugs for an overview. Nevertheless I use flexbox almost everywhere. It's a great system to arrange anything from general layout to smaller components. There's absolutely no way that I'll deal with any kind of hacks to get basic things like vertical centering right.
ggurgone 10y ago
Most of them are fixed in https://github.com/suitcss/components-grid https://github.com/suitcss/components-grid

fizzbatter 10y ago

Unfortunately that still leaves out a ton of users. I know that's a tiny percentage, but tiny nonetheless. The shop i'm heading to soon has a small number of clients (<5k, each being very important), but with many using ancient systems. IE8/9 iirc. We use Table layouts for our "old compatible" product, and i don't think we'll ever move on from that. Some clients just refuse to update it seems. Luckily (for my sanity) we have a "new age" product that we can use responsive layouts for.

gbog 10y ago
"Refuse to update" well yes, I would too, refuse to do something that is notoriously breaking a lot of working stuff for no known benefit. For example java applets developped for IE6 that is vital, because it drives the 10 years old exotic scanner, and nobody dares touching it.
gotofritz 10y ago
Supporting old browsers should be treated as a special case though, like "people with js disabled" or something. Then of course you don't use flexbox (or serve different css fles or have a scaled down design or whatever). But the "norm" is that flexbox is now safe for most users.

NKCSS 10y ago

It's still common to find Citrix environments with IE 8/9 here in .nl healthhcare sector

javajosh 10y ago
Someone should write an exploit for IE 8/9 that upgrades them to Firefox.
- talmand 10y ago
  Google did that back in the day with Chrome. https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-get... Discontinued though.