Responsive Design News

Keep up with the latest news and developments around responsive design and the new direcitons that web designa and development are taking.

How We’re Using Progressive Web Apps to Shake Up the Property Market

See how a PWA dashboard app can create lightning fast experiences for customers.

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The end of the clearfix hack?

Using ‘display: flow-root’ we might be able to step away from the clearfix hack that has been the basis of many a framework.

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Saving you bandwidth on Google+ through machine learning

Using a new technology called RAISR, Rapid and Accurate Image Super-Resolution, Google are sending much smaller images down the wire.

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Understanding the Critical Rendering Path

In this article Ire goes into details about the process a browser goes through to render a web page.

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Mentorship

An amazing opportunity for you to be mentored 1-to-1 with one of the very best in our web community, Aaron Gustafson.

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High Performance Browser Networking

This book is from Ilya Grigorik which is available to read for free on the web.

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The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid

The wonderful thing is that Grid is now literally around the corner so it’s time to start getting familiar with the approach.

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Learning from Lego: A Step Forward in Modular Web Design

A few years back I did a talk that compared the CMS I worked with to a box of lego and played on the fact that if you could become a master builder you could create any web experience imaginable with the tools at your fingertips. This article, however, takes a look at the spacing […]

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CSS Writing Modes

An excellent introduction from Jen Simmons on writing modes on the web. Did you know that among all the current browsers it’s only Opera Mini that doesn’t support writing modes?

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The (Not So) Secret Powers Of The Mobile Browser

Move over Native Apps, there’s a new kid in town. One of the coolest things in this article is the Sock website that updates the title bar colour to match the colour of the socks that you’re currently viewing. Ingenious.

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First Steps in VR

With the Web VR we are really taking a big unknown leap into many levels of responsive design. Everyone is experimenting with it at the moment so now’s the time to jump in, grab something like A-Frame.io and start hello worlding.

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Hey, Hey, Cloud Four is a PWA!

In another amazing post from Jason Grigsby he steps through the process of taking the Cloudfour site from a simple HTTP website to a Progressive Web App.

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[Insert Clickbait Headline About Progressive Enhancement Here]

Last week there was a questionable article written about Progressive Enhancement that, I believe, missed the point. Thankfully we’ve got some amazing people in the industry that can write intelligent responses, thanks Aaron.

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Creating a Cache-aware HTTP/2 Server Push Mechanism

This article seems to hint at a possible way around that, and while I haven’t tested the hypothesis it does look like a nice approach.

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The 100% correct way to do CSS breakpoints

A great way to approach responsive breakpoints in your next redesign. I’ve said it many times before that you shouldn’t focus your breakpoints on specific device widths.

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JavaScript is not an enemy of accessibility!

In my day to day job I’m often the first person to speak up and question the need for the introduction of javascript into the pages/sites that we create. I’m a huge fan in the HTML first approach and these days I find a lot of people reaching too quickly for JS before getting the […]

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CSS Inheritance, The Cascade And Global Scope: Your New Old Worst Best Friends

Focus on using the inheritance and the C in CSS (cascading) to keep your CSS more consistent and lighter.

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Front end guidelines

Before starting anything you should set up a series of ‘rules’ for how to build the site, and then try applying those ‘rules’ to a small module to see if everyone has the same idea about what the rules mean.

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Image Effects with CSS

Is the image you’ve got to drop into the design just not working for you? No time to edit in Photoshop? Don’t have photoshop? These are some pretty impressive effects that you can apply using CSS alone

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The API-Based CMS Approach

As part of the “RWD in 2017” talk I encouraged the audience to focus on improving their CMS. Content should be contained within specific fields rather than blobs so that it can make it easier to break them apart and use where ever you need in your design.

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