Posted by nodiac on October 20, 2010 at 4:47am
For those of you who are interested, the article is here:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
The flexible grid layout example is here:
http://www.alistapart.com/d/responsive-web-design/ex/ex-site-larger.html
Categories: mobile, mobile, General discussions
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Also look at the jQuery Mobile framework
Much like the drupal iUI, it might also be worthwhile to look at jQuery Mobile (http://jquerymobile.com/) for powering your mobile site as it looks quite feature rich.
Opera Simulator
I've found Opera to be among the least forgiving mobile browser... here's an easy way to check how your site will render. http://www.opera.com/mobile/demo/
Responsive Web Design book out
This is a bit of an old thread now, but the book by the guy who wrote that ALA article is now available:
http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design
I haven't read it yet, but I plan to.
Ethan Marcotte also wrote a
Ethan Marcotte also wrote a guest chapter in Handcrafted CSS (more bulletproof web design) by Dan Cederholm -- the chapter by Ethan is called "the Fluid Grid" and clearly explains all the same concepts, including layout changes (aka responsive web). its a good book with lots of real world css best practices -- it came out a little more than a year ago and you can prob pick it up used cheap, or at the library.
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