Responsive Web Design, Page 10

This is Part 3 in a series about Responsive Design for Apps. Part 1 talks about why responsive design for apps is inevitable. Part 2 presents a case study in redesigning a desktop…

Recently, I was tasked with helping a client determine if they could convert both their site and web apps to responsive design. In my Part 1 of this series, I outlined why it seems…

A few months ago I was tasked with finding a good solution for a client who wanted to move to responsive design, but had a web app that they needed to support as well.

As long as I’m posting puzzles, riddle me this: what happens to the browser’s lookahead pre-parser if we find the holy grail of responsive images—an image format that works for all resolutions? What is…

For a few months now, I’ve been puzzling over the question of how to pick responsive images breakpoints. It has become a koan to me—no more answerable than the sound of one hand clapping. And…

Some people do a lot of research before they travel. They read guidebooks. They like to know what they are going to do before they get there. Others want to experience the new place and…

Over the last few weeks many more web developers and designers have become engaged in the conversation surrounding responsive images. On the whole, this is great news because the more people we have telling browser…

It’s been a strange few years for the pixel, that unit we love to hate and generally blithely use anyway. First, there is the weird brain-bending device pixel versus CSS pixel math we’re all trying…

Hay, I wrote this in 2012! I still like the notion of the metaphorical connection between content-based sizing units (e.g. ems) and layout definitions (e.g. breakpoints). And the zooming behavior cited here was always meant…