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Responsive Web Design with jQuery

By : Gilberto Crespo
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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

Introducing touch gestures to user experience


Touchscreen devices are ruling the mobile platform nowadays. Most of the smartphones and tablets have many elements using touch gestures and now it's coming to our desktop development. In his article Optimizing for Touch Across Devices, Luke Wroblewski says:

"So what does it mean to consider touch across all screen sizes? Two things: touch target sizes and placement of controls."

Luke Wroblewski highlights two of the most important points to consider with responsive touch design: touch target sizes and placement of controls:

  • Touch target sizes: They are relatively easy to implement and any navigation system that needs to work with touch needs to have menu options that can be comfortably used by people with imprecise fingers to prevent accidental taps and errors. Some articles mentioning the minimum measure of touchable area should be 44 px.

  • Placement of controls: Controls need to be positioned in a way that aligns with how people hold and use touch...