[css-d] Media query best practice question

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Livingston
Hello list, Attempting to improve my responsive skills here... We are working on a site that we would like to be responsive. We are wondering about what content would a mobile user *need* to receive when viewing the site. My question is: is using CSS media queries to hide (display:none;)

Re: [css-d] Media query best practice question

2011-10-19 Thread David Laakso
On 10/19/11 11:43 AM, Tom Livingston wrote: Attempting to improve my responsive skills here... We are working on a site that we would like to be responsive. We are wondering about what content would a mobile user *need* to receive when viewing the site. It does force one to think about what

Re: [css-d] Media query best practice question

2011-10-19 Thread Micky Hulse
You might check out the 320 and up approach: http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/ ‘‘320 and Up’ prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen’s stylesheet as its starting point. __

Re: [css-d] Media query best practice question

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Livingston
We have run into cases where, under the right situation, desktop users have triggered or ignored (very old browser) the media queries - which is obviously not desired. Not sure what you mean? Unless it is that you are kicking in the display MQ too early and desktop users in  narrow windows

Re: [css-d] Media query best practice question

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Livingston
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Micky Hulse mickyhulse.li...@gmail.com wrote: You might check out the 320 and up approach: http://stuffandnonsense.co.uk/projects/320andup/ ‘‘320 and Up’ prevents mobile devices from downloading desktop assets by using a tiny screen’s stylesheet as its

Re: [css-d] Media query best practice question

2011-10-19 Thread David Laakso
What happened in the case I mentioned was that we had a media query for max-device-width of 1024, intended for iPad. When a user hit this site on a laptop, lets say, that had the resolution set to 1024, they got the iPad queries. And thus were not seeing things that a desktop user should see. Did