- Jeffrey Zeldman gave us the term "web standards"
- Jesse James Garrett changed the nature of interaction on the web by minting the word "ajax"
- Ethan Marcotte coined the term "responsive web design"
CHAPTER 1 - Our Responsive Web
- Web borrows the print concept of the canvas
- However, web is one step removed from their actual canvas because once people view their page online, it might look different to different people - some have different font choices, different color displays, and the shape and size of their browser
- The constraints that designers use can easily be broken
- A smaller browser causes text to be cut off and the use of a horizontal scroll bar
- Designers have many more devices and resolutions to design for nowadays
- Rather than creating spaces that influence the behavior of people that pass through them, responsive designers are investigating ways for a piece of architecture and its inhabitants to mutually influence and inform each other - "responsive architecture"
- Responsive designers need to let go
- Instead of creating disconnected designs, each tailored to a particular device or browser, they should treat them as facets of the same experience
- This means that they can craft sites that are not only more flexible, but can adapt to the media that renders them
- We need to practice responsive web design - we can embrace the flexibility inherent to the web, without surrendering the control we require as designers
- It takes three ingredients to create a responsive design
- A flexible, grid-based layout
- Flexible images and media
- Media queries, a module from the CSS3 specification
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