Posts Tagged ‘Responsive Design’
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Keeping The Big <picture> SmallHow To Avoid Duplicate Downloads In Responsive Images
- May 10th, 2013
- 35 Comments
The <picture> element is a new addition to HTML5 that’s being championed by the W3C’s Responsive Images Community Group (RICG). It is intended to provide a declarative, markup-based solution to enable responsive images without the need of JavaScript libraries or complicated server-side detection. The <picture> element supports a number of different ...
Read more...Case StudyImprove Mobile Support With Server-Side-Enhanced Responsive Design
- April 9th, 2013
- 24 Comments
In many ways, responsive Web design deserves a big share of the honor for making the Web more usable on non-desktop devices. This trend of letting the browser determine more about how a Web page should be displayed makes sense, especially now that mobile browsers are slightly more trustworthy than ...
Read more...Performance OptimizationHow To Make Your Websites Faster On Mobile Devices
- April 3rd, 2013
- 32 Comments
A recent study (PDF) found that more than 80% of people are disappointed with the experience of browsing Web on mobile devices and would use their smartphones more if the browsing experience improved. This isn’t surprising when 64% of smartphone users expect websites to load in 4 seconds or less, while ...
Read more...Device Size MattersResponsive Web Design With Physical Units
- March 21st, 2013
- 40 Comments
This post should be titled “Getting Ahead of Yourself.” “…By a Few Years,” actually. Here’s the deal: at the time I’m writing this, early 2013, there’s no way to accurately design for the Web using physical units, nor will there be for a very long time. But there is a way ...
Read more...OptimizationResponsively Retrofitting An Existing Site With RWD Retrofit
- March 18th, 2013
- 17 Comments
Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, touchscreen mobile devices have exploded in popularity. They have introduced new problems, new solutions, new interactions, new ways of thinking and, of course, new costs to our clients. The most important question on everyone’s mind — clients and developers alike — is, “How ...
Read more...RWD & Device Detection?Building A Better Responsive Website
- March 5th, 2013
- 60 Comments
Earlier this year, I was in the beginning stages of a redesign for our company’s website. We had already been planning to use a straightforward responsive approach to Web design, which is our preferred solution for multi-device support. After hearing some frank discussions at An Event Apart conference in Boston about ...
Read more...Opinion ColumnWhy Responsive Web Design Has To Win Out
- February 14th, 2013
- 15 Comments
When considering a mobile Web strategy and weighing responsive Web design against a separate mobile website, the most important metric is how functional the website is for the user. This goes beyond better content organization for smaller screens. Mobile (and desktop) websites should be easily found, easily shared, fast loading, easy ...
Read more...Mobile Design’s Wake-Up CallPreparing Websites For The Unexpected
- January 14th, 2013
- 25 Comments
Designing websites for smartphones is easy compared to retrofitting those already in place. More than that, it’s embarrassing how, almost eight years after CSS gained practical acceptance, a lack of foresight haunts those of us who write HTML. Converting older websites to responsive design causes headaches not because small screens are ...
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