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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By : Andrew D. Patterson
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Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4

By: Andrew D. Patterson

Overview of this book

<p>Every web designer needs a toolkit. From text editors to graphics programs, from table structures to fluid style sheets, the web designer has many tools and techniques to choose from. Zurb's Foundation framework is an excellent kit for today's web designer. It's fluid, it's easy to work with, it has plenty of components, and most importantly, you can apply your creativity to make your very own designs.<br /><br />Zurb's Foundation 4 is a practical, easy-to-use toolkit for the layout and construction of web pages. Getting Started with Zurb Foundation 4 introduces Zurb Foundation’s powerful web design and development toolkit. Learn how to create professional layouts with ease, add powerful CSS and JavaScript components to your pages, and then customize and configure the design to your satisfaction. Understand how to efficiently manage your CSS and layout your pages with SASS, the style sheet language. This book will help you put Foundation 4 to work for you today!<br /><br />This book documents Foundation's grid system, all its components and plugins, and its generation of custom style sheets. The book serves as an all-encompassing introduction as well as a future reference guide. The foundation of Foundation is its grid system...and there is a whole lot more.<br /><br />Once you've covered the basics, you'll be ready to advance with SASS, the style sheet language, to customize your installation and layout your pages.<br /><br />With this book, you will discover all the CSS components and JavaScript plugins that are included in Foundation at the present time and learn how to integrate each of them into your web pages.</p>
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Interchange


As a responsive toolkit, Foundation is based on the fact that by default all devices load the same content, and the only difference from one device to another is how the content is displayed. As one of the newest plugins, Interchange is designed for selective loading.

Instead of loading large resolution images to all the devices, you can load an image specific to a device. Especially on small devices, where users may be sensitive to bandwidth and processor performance, this makes it easier to optimize your web pages for those devices.

The setup is straightforward. Set an image in your src attribute as you normally would. Then add a data-interchange attribute where you specify alternate images and the conditions on which they will be used.

Let's look at an example:

<img src="./images/200x200.png" data-interchange="[./images/400x400.png, (only screen and (min-width: 768px))]">

In this example, we specified one alternate image. You can have more than one alternate image as well...