I've seen the "flexbox was created because floats were too slow" meme a few times and it seems clearly wrong to me. Where did it come from?
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Replying to @pcwalton
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@pcwalton@SimonSapin "Flexbox was created because floats were too hacky" and hacks break in unexpected ways all the times#FixedItForYou1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @FremyCompany
@FremyCompany@pcwalton@SimonSapin I mean, there's lots of reasons. "Speed" definitely wasn't a major one. This was.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Replying to @tabatkins
@tabatkins @fremycompany @simonsapin That was my understanding—flexbox was mainly an improvement in expressiveness/ergonomics.
11:13 AM - 18 Mar 2016
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