October 8, 2014

Kraken 4

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Kraken 4 was released this morning. This is the best version of Kraken yet. Here’s what’s new.

SVG Support: Kraken now features an SVG sprite generator, as well as an SVG feature test for some conditional styling.

Goodbye IE 8: Kraken 4 drops optimization for IE 8. That means no more conditional classes on the <html> element, and HTML5 shim has been removed. IE 8 users will get a very minimal, content-focused, single-column experience.

Documentation Generator: A built-in documentation generator makes it easier for you to keep your team informed and teach clients about how to use the things you build with Kraken.

Sass 3 Features: Sass variables and the new @each loop make extending the grid and adding icon fonts much easier.

New Namespacing: The feature detection script was renamed detects.js. The main CSS and JavaScript files were namespaced as main instead of kraken. And .text-tall was changed to .text-large for better semantics and extensibility.

View the docs and download Kraken on GitHub.