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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS - Fourth Edition

By : Ben Frain
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS

4.5 (56)
By: Ben Frain

Overview of this book

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS, Fourth Edition, is a fully revamped and extended version of one of the most comprehensive and bestselling books on the latest HTML5 and CSS techniques for responsive web design. It emphasizes pragmatic application, teaching you the approaches needed to build most real-life websites, with downloadable examples in every chapter. Written in the author's friendly and easy-to-follow style, this edition covers all the newest developments and improvements in responsive web design, including approaches for better accessibility, variable fonts and font loading, and the latest color manipulation tools making their way to browsers. You can enjoy coverage of bleeding-edge features such as CSS layers, container queries, nesting, and subgrid. The book concludes by exploring some exclusive tips and approaches for front-end development from the author. By the end of the book, you will not only have a comprehensive understanding of responsive web design and what is possible with the latest HTML5 and CSS, but also the knowledge of how to best implement each technique. Read through as a complete guide or dip in as a reference for each topic-focused chapter.
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Section 1: The Fundamentals of Responsive Web Design
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Section 2: Core Skills for Effective Front-End Web Development
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Section 3: Latest Platform Features and Parting Advice
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

A warning on CSS performance

When it comes to CSS performance, I would like you to remember this one thing:

”Architecture is outside the braces, performance is inside.”

—– Ben Frain

Let me expand on my little maxim: as far as I can prove, worrying about whether a CSS selector (the part outside the curly braces) is fast or slow is pointless. I set out to prove this here: https://benfrain.com/css-performance-revisited-selectors-bloat-expensive-styles/.

However, one thing that really can grind a page to a halt, CSS-wise, is expensive properties (the parts inside the curly braces). When we use the term “expensive” in relation to certain styles, it simply means it costs the browser a lot of overhead. It’s something the browser, or perhaps more accurately, the host hardware, finds overly taxing to do.

It’s possible to make a common-sense guess about what will cause the browser extra work. It’...

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