mirisuzanne

/* 
  This is not meant to be a final CSSWG proposal, 
  but reflects my immediate thoughts after reading
  [David Baron's](https://github.com/dbaron/container-queries-implementability) promising draft.
  This gist was created to demonstrate my idea for removing selectors from his query syntax.

  More of my thoughts & notes are online at css.oddbird.net/rwd/
*/

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davatron5000

The State of Container Queries

tl;dr Developers would like the idea to style components based on a parent's width rather than depend solely on the viewport media query. This would allow modular components to style themselves while being agnostic to the viewport.

There is currently a lot of developer interest in getting a feature like Container Queries (née "Element Queryies") shipped in a browser.

2-min Catchup

Here are official'ish documents to outline the developer community's desires.

james2doyle

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function slugify($string, $replace = array(), $delimiter = '-') {
  // https://github.com/phalcon/incubator/blob/master/Library/Phalcon/Utils/Slug.php
  if (!extension_loaded('iconv')) {
    throw new Exception('iconv module not loaded');
  }
  // Save the old locale and set the new locale to UTF-8
  $oldLocale = setlocale(LC_ALL, '0');
  setlocale(LC_ALL, 'en_US.UTF-8');
  $clean = iconv('UTF-8', 'ASCII//TRANSLIT', $string);

nikic

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't: