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This just makes one realize how broken the standards really are. All these things should, to some extent, be taken care off without the developer needing to apply it.

I know how things work, just sayin'...it's broken!

Re: Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 4:37 PM UTC

simonwesterlund wrote: post #3

it is very funny that this page isn't responsive.

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Re: Responsive Web Design – Advanced Lesson

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Post by pestaa » Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

simonwesterlund wrote: post #3

it is very funny that this page isn't responsive.

Is it funny that your towel isn't always clean?

Responsive design has its place and the article describes that quite well. IMHO it shouldn't be applied to the article itself.

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Post by monsterix » Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

This is good stuff. Would be great if it went right in and also talked about limitations like fewer ports-per-connection, poor standards support e.g. stuff like unsupported position:fixed property, dead file-input field, terrible response times for tap/long-tap etc.

I mean responsive layout for presentation of content (blog/BS) is fairly easy. For an interactive web-app however, design logic goes quite in the opposite direction. To this end I found http://html5rocks.com a very useful resource.

Looking at current number of devices and independent implementations of browsers having different levels of support for web standards, (even on iDevices!) I feel that we are sort of back to 1995.

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Post by ericdykstra » Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 5:03 PM UTC

This is a really good and succinct overview. I'm definitely saving this article both for self-reference and for showing other people who don't grasp responsive design. Thanks for writing this!

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Post by weareconvo » Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

danielovich wrote: post #4

This just makes one realize how broken the standards really are. All these things should, to some extent, be taken care off without the developer needing to apply it. I know how things work, just sayin'...it's broken!

I'm not sure what it is you mean by "all these things". However, if you read the standards, you'd understand why they behave very conservatively with respect to adding more stuff in there.

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Post by nikolakirev » Mon, Jan 21, 2013, 5:29 PM UTC

simonwesterlund wrote: post #3

it is very funny that this page isn't responsive.

I was about to comment on the same thing, but actually I think it will look good on a tablet and I guess a smartphone is not the best device to read web design tutorials.