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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Ben Frain
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Tablets, smart phones and even televisions are being used increasingly to view the web. There's never been a greater range of screen sizes and associated user experiences to consider. Web pages built to be responsive provide the best possible version of their content to match the viewing devices of not just today's devices but tomorrow's too.Learn how to design websites according to the new "responsive design"ù methodology, allowing a website to display beautifully on every screen size. Follow along, building and enhancing a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book provides a practical understanding of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of front-end web development. Starting with a static Photoshop composite, create a website with HTML5 and CSS3 which is flexible depending on the viewer's screen size.With HTML5, pages are leaner and more semantic. A fluid grid design and CSS3 media queries means designs can flex and adapt for any screen size. Beautiful backgrounds, box-shadows and animations will be added ñ all using the power, simplicity and flexibility of CSS3.Responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3 provides the necessary knowledge to ensure your projects won't just be built "right" for today but also the future.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have learned how to use a host of new HTML5 form attributes. They enable us to make forms more usable than ever before and the data they capture more relevant. Furthermore, we can future proof this new markup by using JavaScript feature detection and conditional loading of JavaScript polyfill scripts so that all users experience similar form features, regardless of their browsers capability.

We're nearing the end of our Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 journey. We've covered a lot of theory alongside our practical 'And the winner isn't' example website. However, implementing responsive designs in the real world often presents further challenges. How to handle a mass of navigation links on a small screen? How to only load additional files for the browsers that need them? In the final chapter we will be looking at some of these common issues (and their solutions) when implementing responsive designs built with HTML5 and CSS3. We'll also revisit how best to deal with some...