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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

Serving different images for different screen sizes


We have our images resizing nicely and we now understand how we can limit the display size of specific images should we choose to. However, earlier in the chapter we noted the inherent problem with scaling images. They must be physically larger than they are displayed in order to render well. If they aren't, they start to look a mess. Because of this, images, in terms of file size, are almost always bigger than they need to be given the likely display size.

Various people have tackled the problem, attempting to provide smaller images to smaller screens. The first notable example was the Filament Group's "Responsive Images" (http://filamentgroup.com/lab/responsive_images_experimenting_with_context_aware_image_sizing/). However, recently, I've switched to Matt Wilcox's "Adaptive Images" (http://adaptive-images.com). The Filament Group's solution required the image related markup to be altered. Matt's solution doesn't and automatically creates...