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Implementing Responsive Design Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web

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ISBN-10: 0321821688

ISBN-13: 9780321821683

Edition: 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Tim Kadlec

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Users are accessing online content on a multitude of different devices, from mobile phones to desktop computers. This book takes a deep dive into all the considerations that go into a responsive project in order to provide a great user experience. It discusses the techniques required to make a bulletproof responsive site, and also looks at what we need for standards and tools to evolve into in order to simplify the methods of implementation.
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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication date: 7/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

The Anywhere, Everywhere Web
Where we went wrong
The devices are coming, the devices are coming
Display size
Network speeds
Standards support
Input method
Context
Separate sites
Divergence
Becoming responsive
Progressive enhancement
Why another book on responsive design?
What's covered?
Who is this book for?
Code examples
The companion site
Fluid Layouts
Layout options
Fixed-width
Fluid layouts
Elastic layouts
Hybrid layouts
Which approach is the most responsive?
Sizing fonts
Pixels
Ems
Percentages
Bonus round: rems
Which approach is the most responsive?
Converting from pixels
Grid layouts
Content-out
Setting the grid
Mixing fixed and fluid widths
Table layouts-the right way
Wrapping it up
Media Queries
Viewports
A pixel is a pixel, unless it isn't
Viewport tag and properties
Media query structure
Media types
Media expressions
Logical keywords
Rules
Embedded versus external
Media query order
Desktop down
Mobile up
Create your core experience
Determining breakpoints
Follow the content
Enhancing for larger screens
Using ems for more flexible media queries
Navigation
Toggling
Supporting Internet Explorer
Wrapping it up
Responsive Media
What's the problem?
Performance
Selectively serving images to mobile
JavaScript
Introducing matchMedia
Responsive image strategies
Fighting the browser
Resignation
Going to the server
Responsive image options
Sencha.io Src
Adaptive Images
Wait, what's the answer here?
Background images
While we're at it
High-resolution displays
SVG
Other fixed-width assets
Video
Advertising
Wrapping it up
Planning
Choosing to be responsive
Considerations
Performance
Context
Content negotiation
Time investment
Support
Advertising
Conclusion
Consider your analytics
Skewed site analytics
Which stats matter
Skewed market share statistics
Consider your content
Content audit
Page tables
Consider where you're going
Optimized for some, accessible to many
Consider the cross-device experience
Prepare your test bed
Actual devices
Emulators
Third-party services
Wrapping it up
Design Workflow
Your mileage may vary
An interactive medium
Collaboration
Thinking in systems
Thinking mobile first
Mobile is exploding
Mobile forces you to focus
Mobile extends your capabilities
The tools
Wireframes
Mock-ups
Style guides
Wrapping it up
Responsive Content
Starting with the content
Content types
Purpose
Creation
Structure
What content to display, and when
Removing content
Enhancing content
When should content order change?
Structure, again
Where we need to go
Code soup
Baby steps
Building an API
Wrapping it up
Ress
User agent detection
Anatomy of a user agent string
What can you do with user agent detection?
Feature detection
Modernizr
Going to the server
Combining user agent detection and feature detection
RESS: The best of both worlds
Troubled waters
Installing WURFL
Configuration
Detecting capabilities
Making calls
Optimizing for touch
Wrapping it up
Responsive Experiences
A system of sensors
Network
What can we do?
Context
Classifying context
Observe and research
Capabilities
HTML5 input types
APIs
Wrapping it up
Looking Forward
Photo Credits
Index
About the Technical Editor
About the Author