The real conflict behind <picture> and @srcset
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…
Responsive Web Design, Page 11
A framework for discussing responsive images solutions
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…
Pixels are ruining my life
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…
The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW!
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…
Taking “Content First” Very Seriously
The new www.cloudfour.com site stretches content-first thinking to its academic extremes Whereas my personal theme for the second half of 2011 was about letting content go, 2012 seems to be the year I…
Responsive Web Design Business Challenges
During the Future of Mobile Web summit that dotMobi sponsored, I brought up a series of responsive web design (RWD) challenges that I’ve been thinking about that have little to do with technical…
Preferred solutions for responsive images
Scott Jehl recently tweeted: I concur. A couple of months ago, I asked what you preferred as a solution for responsive images. At the time, I didn’t have a strong…
Responsive IMGs: Choosing between semantic markup and working code
I asked recently what responsive IMG technique we should teach in our book? Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t a clear winner in the comments. After agonizing over this for a couple of weeks, I’m leaning towards…
Other Mobile First Responsive Web Design Challenges
Alright, I’ve written extensively on the challenges with the IMG tag for mobile first responsive web designs. What other challenges are people running into? Here’s what I’ve seen: Video (especially embedding third-party video) —…
What Responsive IMG Technique Should We Teach in Our Book?
All this time you thought I was writing novels about responsive IMGs for altruistic purposes, but I had an ulterior motive. We need help with our book. One chapter of the book is called…