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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By : Gilberto Crespo
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By: Gilberto Crespo

Overview of this book

<p>Owing to the different types of devices that offer Internet browsing today, responsive web designing has become a booming area. The heightened use of CSS3 and JavaScript libraries such as jQuery has led to shorter responsive web design times. You can now create a responsive website swiftly that works richly in any device a user might possess.</p> <p>"Responsive Web Design with jQuery" is a practical book focused on saving your development time using the useful jQuery plugins made by the frontend community. Follow the chapters, and learn to design and augment a responsive web design with HTML5 and CSS3. The book presents a practical know how of these new technologies and techniques that are set to be the future of frontend web development.</p> <p>This book helps you implement the concept of responsive web design in clear, gradual, and consistent steps, demonstrating each solution, and driving you to practice it and avoid common mistakes.</p> <p>You will learn how to build a responsive website; right from its structure, conception, and adapting it to screen device width. We will also take a look at different types of menu navigation and how to convert text, images, and tables so as as to display them graciously on different devices. Features such as the carousel slider and form elements will also be covered, including the testing phase and the measures to create correct fallbacks for old browsers.</p> <p>With "Responsive Web Design with jQuery", you will learn to create responsive websites quickly by using CSS3 and the incredible jQuery plugins. You will also learn to save your time by tailoring solutions created and tested by the community.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with jQuery
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making fewer HTTP requests


Decreasing the number of components included on a page reduces the number of HTTP requests required to load the website and it is not related to the number of KBs of each file only. There is also a problem that refers to the short time for which each HTTP connection is consumed by servers processing each request before delivering the file back to the browser.

We will see some techniques to achieve reduction in the number of requests:

  • Using conditional loaders

  • Combining multiple scripts into one script

  • Combining multiple CSS files into one stylesheet

  • Using CSS Sprites

Using conditional loaders

Conditional loaders such as RequireJS or yepnope.js, which we have talked about earlier in the book, will only load code that is required.

Consolidating and minifying resources (JavaScript and CSS)

The ideal result is that in production there will be a single CSS file and a single JavaScript file for the entire site.

The solution for this is to consolidate that bunch of JavaScript files...