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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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Ben Frain Ben Frain
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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

High resolution devices (the future)


Devices and their capabilities are changing all the time. Indeed, it isn't just different viewport sizes we must contend with. Already, we need to consider viewports that have higher resolution displays. The iPhone 4 was the first widely used device to implement a high-resolution display. Its screen is 960 by 640 pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch, double the resolution of the prior version (iPhone 3GS) and double the pixel per inch density of laptops such as the 2011 15" MacBook Pro. Expect many more devices from tablets and laptops to desktop screens to follow suit. Thankfully, our responsive tools already provide us with the capabilities to support enhancements for these devices.

Let's suppose we wanted to load a higher resolution version of a site logo for users of high-resolution displays. It's a situation I encountered when performing a recent redesign of my own website at http://www.benfrain.com. Here is the markup for my logo area:

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