Switch Cardinal back to em/px units for 3.0 release about cardinalcss HOT 9 CLOSED

I'm on board for this switch, any plans to do mixins to output REM-units with PX fallbacks? Or strictly just switch to px/em in all REM-related properties?

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I'm not using preprocessors, and I prefer the rem units. Switching to em/px may make things easier in one way, but I think it complicates things overall. What's great about rem is their simplicity, that they are rooted. Additionally, market share for IE8 and below is declining enough that many people, myself included, don't bother with fallbacks for such old software. I think it's a step backward to switch to em/px.

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More reasons to not bother with old versions of ie: http://goo.gl/YCMaAH

Microsoft is forcing people of of anything older than IE11.

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I both agree and disagree with the change. I think the way of the future is to leverage dynamic units for scalable type, CSS4 variables, etc. IMHO Preprocessors are the key to this and I think they should be leveraged. I'm not sure anyone wants to bend over backwards for compatibility, so I say keep it as-is. Sure there is some mental math involved to deduce that 1rem = 16px given html { font-size: 100%; } but is it really that hard? Set common values you can remember and do 'simple' math.

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I should not switch back. Consider to integrate https://github.com/robwierzbowski/grunt-pixrem/ in the build process.

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Yeah I think maybe we can use a LESS mixin or grunt (as @bassjobsen) stated to generate pixel fallback units

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If you agree / choose i'm willing to add the code to #55.

I think using the autoprefixer and pixrem will keep your code clean. Alternatively solve this issues with Less (mixins) enables you to use alternative compilers (for those who don't install grunt (npm) and can't run the postcompilers ).

Also notice that the pixrem do not support source maps

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I would stop using cardinal altogether if we starts using em/px again. There are rem polypills that can be use for backward compatibility.

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Thanks for the feedback everyone, I am going to continue using rem units in future versions of Cardinal. Closing this out.

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