Thoughts on Toggling a Responsive Design On and Off

Jordan believes that it can be a good thing to add an option to switch off responsive design and proposes another icon as a visual aid. As I’ve said in the past I’m not a fan of providing something that covers a poor implementation, instead just spend more time improving the design.

Earlier today Roger Johansson posted an article about potential scenarios for disabling a responsive design along with a demo. As noted in the article, this isn’t new thinking as bothBruce LawsonChris Coyier and various others have spoken about it before — the purpose was to introduce the demo along with scenarios where it would be useful.

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