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philipwalton / solved-by-flexbox

A showcase of problems once hard or impossible to solve with CSS alone, now made trivially easy with Flexbox.
https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
MIT License
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Very small nitpick with Sticky Footer #119

Closed petty closed 5 years ago

petty commented 5 years ago

... the name Sticky Footer implied to me that the footer would have the property position set to sticky (e.g. position: sticky). I absolutely get the problem solved in the example & it is a completely valid, useful problem; but I think the name should be something more like "Ensure Footer stays at the bottom of the Viewport for minimal content." Or something like that.

philipwalton commented 5 years ago

The term "sticky footer" existed long before I made this site (in 2013) and was a commonly referenced design problem (hence how Flexbox "solved" it).

If you do a Google search for "sticky footer" (limiting your results to earlier than September 2013), you'll see lots of results.

The CSS position:sticky feature came much later.