You Say Responsive, I Say Adaptive | Sparkbox
On the importance of using a fluid grid in responsive design.
On the importance of using a fluid grid in responsive design.
I’ve just seen this incredible presentation from Stephanie Rieger at the Breaking Development conference in Nashville. It’s absolutely packed full of fantastically useful ideas. You really should’ve been there, but these slides can give you a taste of the presentation.
Dan gives his pragmatic perspective on making Dribbble more adaptive. Baby steps.
When time, resources and funds are more abundant, I’d love us to rethink things in a more holistic manner, but for now incremental improvements will keep us moving.
On the importance of using fluid grids as part of responsive web design:
We do responsive web design, but we don’t do it for the sake of being trendy. We do it because we believe it’s the way websites should be made. This is an opportunity for us to finally embrace the dynamic medium we build for. The web is not fixed width.
Buy. This. Book.
I mean it.
A great explanation of the responsive enhancement of this site.
A proof of concept browser from Adaptive Path together with Mozilla Labs. This must have been fun to work on.
A report on the growing trend of banning laptops from meetings. We never have laptops at the Clearleft Monday morning meetings but it wasn't a policy: it's just common sense/courtesy.
Behind the scenes at Flickr.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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