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.

Front-end Process – Flat Builds and Automation, Part 1: Introduction

A four part series on how to improve your responsive design workflow as a front end developer.

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Media Queries Are Not The Answer: Element Query Polyfill

Another shout out for the element query that we featured in last weeks edition. Watch this space, the more pressure that comes from us the better chance we have at browser vendors implementing the feature.

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Working around a lack of element queries

Scott Jehl at the Filament Group is interested in finding a way to get Element Queries working outside of javascript and as part of the CSS (albeit via a SASS mixin).  It doesn’t look like anyone has cracked that egg yet, but there are some interesting approaches suggested.

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Responsive web design and advertising: the advertiser perspective

ZURB is Looking for a Customer Advocate to Be the Voice of Our Customers

The team that brings us the wonderful Foundation Framework are looking for a community advocate to take your voice and make it heard! If you’re already beating the Zurb drum (as I do myself) this is the perfect opportunity to take it to the next level.

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Crop Top

This is a guest post by Parker Bennett on CSS Tricks where he explores some different ways to approach the behavior of fluid and responsive images.

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Screensiz.es

Screensiz.es is a nifty little database of screen specifications for the most popular devices on the market.

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Building The New Financial Times Web App: A Case Study

Interesting to read about the performance problems around flexbox.

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Clown Car Technique: Solving Adaptive Images In Responsive Web Design

By including media queries and image tags within an SVG file you can effectively solve the RWD image issues… but then you’re serving svg images for everything. In this article Estelle Weyl goes deep into the possible solutions.

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Designing for Breakpoints

You Decide: Whitney's "Responsive" Logo

Forget breakpoints and viewports for resizing and reflowing content, now we’re looking at responsive logos that change shape depending on the canvas size. There’s some interesting reasoning behind the approach… check it out.

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Response-ish Web Design

Text-align: Justify and RWD

Pattern Lab

Brad has kicked some serious butt again with this Pattern Lab. Launched at his latest talk (Beyond Tellerand – spelling!?!?!) Brad has a refreshing way of approaching webpages through atoms, molecules, organisms, templates and pages. I’m very excited that Brad is touching down in London shortly and I’ll be doing my utmost to buy him […]

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The State Of Responsive Web Design

In this article, we will look at what is currently possible, what will be possible in the future using what are not yet standardized properties (such as CSS Level 4 and HTML5 APIS), and what still needs to be improved. This article is not exhaustive, and we won’t go deep into each technique, but you’ll […]

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How to keep up to date on Front-End Technologies

This site is amazing. Check out all of the people you should be following, blogs you should be reading, newsletters you should subscribe to (don’t worry… you’re DEFINITELY subscribed to one of them), and conferences you can attend. Kudos to the folk that put this together.

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responsive table patterns

The number of columns displayed in the table below depends on the available screen space, by default; a smartphone will display 2 columns.

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Adobe Edge Inspect vs Ghostlab

An Event Apart: Responsive and Responsible

Luk Wroblewski presents another fine overview of conference sessions this week, this time the An Event Apart conference in San Diego. This sessions takes a look at Scott Jehls talk about performance in responsive design. He breaks it down to content, html, css, images and javascript and looks at each of them in detail.

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Exploring Ten Fundamental Aspects Of M-Commerce Usability

This could just as easily be called Exploring Ten Fundamental Aspects Of Online Commerce Usability. Almost every tip is true for desktop, tablet, mobile… it doesn’t matter.

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