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Design Web Typography Final Project: Create a Typographic Site Polishing Touches

Kent Hefley
Kent Hefley
11,215 Points
Posted by Kent Hefley
Kent Hefley
11,215 Points

Why floats and clears?

In Web Typography with Mattox Shuler, why was the design layout done using floats and clears instead of flexbox?

What it because at the time of recording flexbox didn't have full browser support?

1 Answer

Gavin Schilling
Gavin Schilling
37,904 Points

Perhaps or perhaps it is in order to teach the longer more organic version so people of all levels of familiarity can utilize the information regardless their level of customization.