Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Williams
And how do they do that? How does the server know the user's page width? By their going to m.example.com as opposed to example.com. Or with JS... On 2/14/14 6:59 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" wrote: >How about controlling the sending of the optional stuff via Server >Side Scripting? So long as the

Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:59 -0500 on 02/14/2014, Chris Williams wrote about Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?: AFAIK, there are but two choices: 1) A mobile version of the page/site, users get redirected there based on client and you only load as needed for each client. This has a number of issues: diffe

Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread Jon Reece
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:42 PM, John Johnson wrote: > Let's say for sizes above mobile (ie 600px) you have 2 or 3 jQuery sliders > on a page, but for mobile, you just want 1 slider to be shown. > > my thought is to use CSS to hide the unwanted, but will there still be > just as many HTTP request

Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Williams
CSS is handled by the client. If you want to have the client to not have to download something, the CSS is too late. AFAIK, there are but two choices: 1) A mobile version of the page/site, users get redirected there based on client and you only load as needed for each client. This has a number

Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Rockwell
So my short answer is that using CSS for this is not a good idea :) On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Chris Rockwell wrote: > I've been thinking about this off and on for a few weeks now. In my case, > I have one image carousel that loads up 18 images. I hid it on narrow > screens as it's no w

Re: [css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread Chris Rockwell
I've been thinking about this off and on for a few weeks now. In my case, I have one image carousel that loads up 18 images. I hid it on narrow screens as it's no where near essential (I'm vying to have it removed completely) but, like you've already stated, that doesn't fix the issue of the user

[css-d] hiding things and bandwidth?

2014-02-14 Thread John Johnson
Let’s say for sizes above mobile (ie 600px) you have 2 or 3 jQuery sliders on a page, but for mobile, you just want 1 slider to be shown. my thought is to use CSS to hide the unwanted, but will there still be just as many HTTP requests, and therefore, should I look to a superior way to do it so

[css-d] image & text will not flow upwards

2014-02-14 Thread da...@higgsy.com
Hello List My web page has a buttons menu floated to the top left. It has four images floated to the right, each one below the other(by using clear right). My problem is I am trying to get the next image “Any Make, Any Model” and the remaining text block b