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traditionally the reason I've avoided flexbox for layout (fine for most items within that layout) is the wonky rendering on slower connections[0]. is bootstrap doing anything to get around this or did they really go "full flexbox"? since I use susy[1] I'll never need bootstrap for grids, but I'm curious about the flexbox adoption and tradeoffs.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPryjyFP5FM

1. http://susy.oddbird.net/

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Cory Simmons Lost grid is good for PostCss https://github.com/peterramsing/lost

Also checkout his other stuff https://github.com/corysimmons

Uh, does connection speed really plays a role when it comes to browser painting the elements? I'm not sure of I understand.

Neither do I. Unless flexbox's CSS weights a lot more than classical CSS, I don't know how could that be a factor to render slower. Does not make any sense.

The observation in the linked video is that, when the browser is incrementally rendering the page, a traditional "grid" layout will put the content in its final location, while a flexbox will render a box of content that's bigger than usual and shrink it later -- because the items that cause the content area to shrink haven't been loaded yet.

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