Mobile-First is a good idea, but the realities are that it’s a Desktop-First world. If you're doing any serious web browsing on a phone its capable of Mq's. And unless you put an extraordinary amount of work into it, the page performance is not much different than a desktop anyway.
http://sixrevisions.com/mobile/responsive-web-design-not-the-future/ Greg -----Original Message----- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Tom Livingston Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 9:25 AM To: Tim Arnold Cc: CSS Discuss; Mike O'Toole Subject: Re: [css-d] Implementing Responsive Design FWIW, what I do is repeat my styles without MQ's inside a conditional comment. Lo-fi, I know, but if you don't want to load a polyfil, this is another option. I use sass imports to do this in a neat way. Email me if you want any more info. — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Tim Arnold <tim.arn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Mike O'Toole <m...@risingwoods.org> wrote: >> >> 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. >> > Keep in mind, if doing a mobile first approach, that IE8 (not exactly > an ancient browser) does not support media queries at all without a > polyfill. > Tim > -- > tim.arn...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
