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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By : Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra
Book Image

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials

By: Alex Libby, Gaurav Gupta, Asoj Talesra

Overview of this book

Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience—providing easy reading and navigation with minimum resizing, panning, and scrolling—and all of this across a wide range of devices from desktop computer monitors to mobile phones. Responsive web design is becoming more important as the amount of mobile traffic now accounts for more than half of the Internet’s total traffic. This book will give you in depth knowledge about the basics of responsive web design. You will embark on a journey of building effective responsive web pages that work across a range of devices, from mobile phones to smart TVs, with nothing more than standard markup and styling techniques. You'll begin by getting an understanding of what RWD is and its significance to the modern web. Building on the basics, you'll learn about layouts and media queries. Following this, we’ll dive into creating layouts using grid based templates. We’ll also cover the important topic of performance management, and discover how to tackle cross-browser challenges.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Taking things further


In many instances, we can satisfy our requirements with the use of a text editor and browser; the latter's device mode (or responsive mode) will play a big part in creating perfectly valid queries that will suit many sites.

However, there will be occasions where this won't be enough. We may need to rely on additional help to support media queries for a particular project. One must ask, though, if this is really necessary, and not simply an excuse to be lazy. The media query support in recent browsers is very solid!

This said, if we have to use outside help, then there are plenty of options available online. Let's take a look at a few examples:

  • Plain JavaScript or jQuery: It goes without saying, but most solutions will be based on either of these two technologies; these will, of course, be obvious choices! The point to note, though, is that jQuery was always designed to complement sites, and not play a core part in their design; one might argue that creating media queries...