Responsive design

Responsive Design

Darja TokranovaIMKE12

Tuesday, January 15, 13

Apple Website in 1997(width fixed to 600px)


Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)


Desktop Mobile


“New devices have erasedcomfortable stereotypes about the way people use technology. There is no possible way we can impose resolution standards now, because people want to get data everywhere, anytime and on every device possible. “

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So, the responsive design is:Set of specific techniques and tools that allows the same website to respond to the devices it is displayed on.


Good Responsive Design Example:The Boston Globe Page


“Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the three technical ingredients for responsive web design, but it also requires a different way of thinking. Rather than quarantining our content into disparate, device-specific experiences, we can use media queries to progressively enhance our work within different viewing contexts.”

— Ethan Marcotte A List Apart, 25 May 2010


Key elements ofresponsive design:

• The Fluid Grid — When page changes size, the content contracts and changes to fit.




• Flexible Images — as Fluid Grid expands or contracts, images inside this website are also scaled to fit.




• Flexible Images — as Fluid Grid expands or contracts, images inside this website are also scaled to fit.

• CSS Media Queries — allow to apply proper stylesheet dynamically,depending on current screen size, its aspect ratio or color support. So as a screen size changes, the page contents reconfigure to provide an optimal layout.


Huh? Media queries?


But... what about Flash?


Adaptive or responsive?


“Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless: like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes a bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes a teapot.Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

— Bruce Lee


Thank you!


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