FYI only recently has the 'smart phone' (all MQ capable) sales passed
the 'feature phone' in sales percentage.
Many present day low end 'feature phones' and most older (sold in
2009-2012) 'feature phones' lack the MQ support.
As of mid 2013 many high end 'feature phones' are MQ capable. FWIW they
are much more powerful than the 'smart phones' of 2011 and before.
HTH,
Mike
On 08/23/2013 12:11 AM, Eric wrote:
Hi Colin,
Yeah that approach is called "mobile first". It's gotten to be really popular. A
few months ago though I read a good article call "Desktop First" that argued the
opposite approach...but I can't find it again (I'll keep looking).
BTW - when was that book published? I thought most mobile UAs supported MQ's by
now....I could be wrong.
As for me I work from the desktop down, it just makes more sense for me.
Eric
On August 22, 2013 at 9:10 PM "Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh"
<sandy.pittendr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Been reading Implementing Responsive Design by Tim Kadlec--which is
surprisingly well-written for an IT book.
Kadlec seems to recommend building a site's CSS from the cell phone
up--because some phones still don't handle media queries. In other words
he starts off by making his sites look good at the smallest resolution, and
then uses media queries (and sometimes Javascript) to add floats and what
ever else is needed to make the site look right as the view port increases.
This came as a surprise to me. I assumed everybody did the opposite: still
build for the desktop, then fiddle with media queries and viewport widths
to make the site acceptable for pads and phones too.
His approach does sometimes require Javascript, to loop through all the
block elements of a certain class and then add to add CSS as needed.
What are the group's thoughts about this approach? Do you build from the
desktop down, or from the cell phone up?
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