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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3

You're reading from   Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 Web pages that respond immediately to different screen sizes and devices is one of today's essentials. Packed with screenshots and examples, this book will teach you the professional approach using just HTML5 and CSS3.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849693189
Length 324 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with HTML5, CSS3, and Responsive Web Design FREE CHAPTER 2. Media Queries: Supporting Differing Viewports 3. Embracing Fluid Layouts 4. HTML5 for Responsive Designs 5. CSS3: Selectors, Typography, and Color Modes 6. Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3 7. CSS3 Transitions, Transformations, and Animations 8. Conquer Forms with HTML5 and CSS3 9. Solving Cross-browser Responsive Challenges Index

Media queries—only part of the solution


Oh… best put that ice back in the freezer. Clearly our work is far from over; that looks horrible on the smaller 320 pixel wide viewport of our iPhone. Our media query is doing exactly what it should, applying styles dependent upon the features of our device. The problem is however, that the media query covers a very narrow spectrum of viewports. Anything with a viewport under 768 pixels is going to experience clipping and anything between 768 and 960 pixels will experience clipping as it will get the non-media query version of the CSS styles which, as we already know, doesn't adapt once we take it below 960 pixels wide (your author rests his head in his hands and lets out a long sigh).

We need a fluid layout

Using media queries alone to change a design is fine if we have a specific known target device; we've already seen how easy it is to adapt a device to the iPad. But this strategy has severe shortcomings; namely, it isn't really future-proof. At...

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