v4 Feature List

[JimBobSquarePants]

This issue serves as a location to discuss the feature and testing matrix for v4 of Responsive. Anything agreed below will be added here.

CSS/Sass

• Browser Support. IE9 up.
• Additional breakpoints. [Question] Breakpoints #48
• Aria based selectors. http://slides.com/heydon/getting-nowhere-with-css-best-practices#/36
• REMs and EMs for fonts
• BlockGrid

JavaScript

• Unit tests
• Nav Widget.

UMD support?
Inherited widgets?

[craigs100]

Would like to see REMS catered for to give the total and easy font size flexibility you'd have if you weren't using a framework.

[JimBobSquarePants]

I'd definitely like to investigate this. My experience using REM units is extremely limited though so if you have any documentation you could add that would be great.

[thecodejunkie]

I would love to see a lightweight block grid implementation http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/block_grid.html

Basically let you define the number of elements, per line, per break point and let the content reflow.

[craigs100]

A few pertinent links on REMS:-

http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/font-size-with-rem
http://css-tricks.com/theres-more-to-the-css-rem-unit-than-font-sizing/
http://css-tricks.com/rems-ems/
http://www.sitepoint.com/css3-rem-units/

I was using REMS with the px sizes prepended before responsive web took off and I jumped on the Bootstrap bandwagon. If Responsive could use REMS that would be fantastic.

[JimBobSquarePants]

👍 Thanks for that.

[ghost]

+1 for rem units

I also think flexbox looks very promissing. That's the direction Zurb is taking with Foundation, it looks very powerful

http://zurb.com/article/1333/foundation-a-new-grid

[JimBobSquarePants]

Yeah, I'd love to have a play about with that but I'd have to think about browser support.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox indicates that IE9 would be out of the picture.

By dropping IE8 I can reduce the quantity of grid code by quite a lot. and introduce more functionality.

[jacmaes]

As per our brief conversation on Twitter (https://twitter.com/jacmaes/status/520592244559331328), I would love an auto-height feature for the carousel.

[jacmaes]

+1 for block grid

[JimBobSquarePants]

Yeah I'm working on that. I reckon I can crack it.

[cvrebert]

Any plans for automated testing of the JS plugins in actual web browsers? Sauce Labs and Browserstack both have free plans for open-source projects.

[JimBobSquarePants]

I'd love to get something like that sorted. I don't really know much about setting up that kind of stuff though so it would probably take me a while.

[JimBobSquarePants]

Hi folks,

The latest build is up in the v4 branch. If you can I would be very grateful if you could cast your eyes over it and provide feedback as I think I'm pretty much ready for the v4 release.

I'm going to build a navigation plugin as a separate project as there is such a massive variation in navigation styles that I don't think it is appropriate for the base framework.

Cheers 😄

[JimBobSquarePants]

v4 is released.