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What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
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Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
#32Anyone have any thoughts or opinions on the books listed in the presentation?
Ethan Marcotte's book (http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design) is pretty good. Not too long, and yet goes over a lot of theory and examples on how to achieve a responsive design.
Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was painful in a desktop browser too. It's ironic really that such terrible layout was born from a document detailing optimal layout concepts
What I find the most ironic is that such new and hip technology (neat javascript tricks) is used to imitate the lamest and most boring forms of presentation (powerpoint) ever.
What I find the most sad is that someone will think this is a really good presentation technique and start using it, while clients will not know what hit them.
This is a really good example of all that can go wrong when HCI is done this way.
Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
#34For 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.
Not quite. It's like limiting the dashboard of a smaller car.
For instance, mobile users can do without the "Latest Posts" sidebar on a forum, but the users preferred it on the desktop. You'd probably remove most of the Twitter Bootstrap topbar links from the mobile version because they'd scrunch up and get in the way, but that doesn't mean having the "Quickstart Guide" link convenient on the desktop version.
There's nothing glorious about not taking advantage of larger screen real estate to make your website more usable, convenient, and feature-accessible to your users. It's the difference between good and bad design.
Re: What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
#35I figured out you could use the space bar to advance through the "slides", which made the presentation just about usable. I then instinctively - and possibly stupidly - tried to use backspace to go back a slide. Obviously, I arrived back at HN. I didn't go back to finish reading. Interesting subject matter, poor presentation.
Fix your web browser settings so backspace is pageUp.