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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

By : Ben Frain
Book Image

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

What parts of HTML5 can we use today?


Although the full specification of HTML5 is yet to be ratified, most new features of HTML5 are already supported, to varying degrees, by modern web browsers including Apple's Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, and Mozilla Firefox and even Internet Explorer 9! So, whilst it's improbable everything in the current draft of the HTML5 specification will survive until recommendation by the W3C, there are plenty of new features that can be implemented right now.

Most sites can be written in HTML5

Currently, if I'm tasked to build a website, my default markup would be HTML5 rather than HTML 4.01. Where the opposite was the case only a few years ago, at present, there has to be a compelling reason not to markup a site in HTML5. All modern browsers understand common HTML5 features with no problems (the new structural elements, video and audio tags) and older versions of IE can be served polyfills to address all of the shortfalls I have encountered.

Note

What are polyfills...