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What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Post by dsawler »

ronancremin wrote: post #5

For a web design to be truely responsive and mobile friendly you need to do more than just move pixels about and change the size and layout of DIVs with media queries. A truely mobile-friendly site will serve a more contextually sympathetic experience to a person holding a mobile device, an experience that avails of all the additional contextual hints that you have available to you on mobile: location, heading, devic…

I couldn't take Responsive that article on mobiforge seriously once I read this "Responsive design does not lend itself well to low-end devices since the same block of HTML is delivered to all devices, large or small. The much vaunted Boston Globe site, a responsive design tour de force, does not work well or at all on popular phones such as the Motorola RAZR or Nokia 6100."

Come on.

Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Post by dsawler »

rimantas wrote: post #9
ronancremin wrote: post #5

For a web design to be truely responsive and mobile friendly you need to do more than just move pixels about and change the size and layout of DIVs with media queries. A truely mobile-friendly site will serve a more contextually sympathetic experience to a person holding a mobile device, an experience that avails of all the additional contextual hints that you have available to you on mobile: location, heading, devic…

The thing is: the stuff you serve for mobile is the only stuff worth serving. Anything else is noise and filler.

This is said a lot, and I have to disagree. The content I serve to someone on a large monitor is going to be different than what I serve up to someone on mobile because I understand what the different needs and desires are for the user groups on each device, not because anything else is noise and filler.

Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Post by fceccon »

samwillis wrote: post #18

It wasn't until I came back here that I found out you should use arrow keys to navigate. Scrolling with the scroll wheel is so bad most people would think it was broken. With the arrow keys it works but doesn't make up for the first impression of it being broken.

The effect is not bad if you scroll with the touchpad, but in a couple of slides I thought it was stuck.

Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Post by ronancremin »

dsawler wrote: post #21
ronancremin wrote: post #5

For a web design to be truely responsive and mobile friendly you need to do more than just move pixels about and change the size and layout of DIVs with media queries. A truely mobile-friendly site will serve a more contextually sympathetic experience to a person holding a mobile device, an experience that avails of all the additional contextual hints that you have available to you on mobile: location, heading, devic…

I couldn't take Responsive that article on mobiforge seriously once I read this "Responsive design does not lend itself well to low-end devices since the same block of HTML is delivered to all devices, large or small. The much vaunted Boston Globe site, a responsive design tour de force, does not work well or at all on popular phones such as the Motorola RAZR or Nokia 6100." Come on.

Low-end devices are still important in some territories. Part of the reason JavaME is so popular (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/01/01/if-android-is-so-hot-...) is Opera Mini, but also the Nokia S40 browser.

This is worth a look also: http://www.slideshare.net/yiibu/adaptation-why-responsive-de...

Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Post by johnpolacek »

Wow, what a nice surprise to see my creation on HN.

To all the critics, I built this to be a slide deck on responsive web design, not a responsive website itself. Its main purpose is for me to launch full screen on Chrome and show on a projector or tv. Its for educating my co-workers on the subject (haven't even had a chance to actually give a presentation yet). Can I at least get some points for using rem's? That's pretty cool, right? haha

Anyway, I did this over my winter break - as well as creating Scrollorama and scrolldeck.js and taking care of a new baby (yay! my 2nd son was born dec. 6). Thanks for checking out my stuff. Hope it is useful for some of you!

By the way, I'm currently rebuilding this using Bartek Szopka's excellent impress.js framework. http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js

Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?

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Post by qwertyboy »

Oh my, this site failed so miserably on my browser (luakit)... All the animations just went wrong, bits of the page were missing or cut beyond the screen, stuff got jumbled and hid the text... Maybe I'm just too textually oriented, but that's not the way I would like to browse the Web.
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