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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

Adapting the site using JavaScript


As we saw in the previous chapter, we may use media queries to identify the current available area and render specific design customizations. This property is very useful, but does not work in older browsers, such as Internet Explorer 8 and older. There are two main solutions we will take a look at that handle media queries very well: Adapt.js and Respond.js.

Let's undertake further analysis of the characteristics of each solution and see what it offers in addition to capturing the device dimensions dynamically (much like the @media query does) as an alternative to projects that need support for older browsers.

Adapt.js

The following are the characteristics of Adapt.js:

  • After capturing the browser's dimensions, Adapt.js serves only the CSS that is needed, when it is needed

  • It has a very lightweight file

Some points that should be considered before adopting it are as follows:

  • This analysis of the size of the browser window is done on demand and short delays may...