[css-d] Implementing Responsive Design

2013-08-22 Thread Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh
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

Re: [css-d] Implementing Responsive Design

2013-08-22 Thread Eric
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

Re: [css-d] Implementing Responsive Design

2013-08-22 Thread Mike O'Toole
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