A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
When coding a responsive site, one uses percentage based widths on your content which involves a little bit of math, but it’s actually super basic and can be handled by anyone with basic addition and multiplication skills. Let’s say we want to add a border to our design. How do we do that? It turns …
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A working group, pondering a proper solution to one the responsive web design challenges: responsive images: Our goal is a markup-based means of delivering alternate image sources based on device capabilities, to prevent wasted bandwidth and optimize display for both screen and print. W3C Responsive Images Community Group →
You might have noticed the absence of posts here on bram.us the past week. Culprit were the new lesson materials I have developed for the course Rich Internet Applications (next year to be renamed to Web & Mobile Development) The developed materials consist of a set of interactive in-browser slide decks, powered by (a customized) …
As Jeremy Keith put it (emphasis mine): This thread on whether HTML5 Boilerplate should include Respond.js by default (and whether the CSS should take a small-screen first approach) nicely summarises the current landscape for web devs: chaotic, confusing … and very, very exciting. I for one tend to pledge for the Mobile First approach (see …
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