Tee,
I agree with your thinking regarding a desktop user getting the 320px
wide layout. It can seem silly. At the same time, responsive design
isn't supposed to be something "visible" but something "invisible".
I doubt desktop users are ever resizing their browser windows and
gasping in astonishment when the layout conforms. Table and fluid
layouts have been doing this always and no one has ever cared then
either as a user.
Responsive developers are the only ones scaling the browser in and out
and checking the results.
Yeah, there are a bunch of items that are frustrating with responsive
design - especially if your fighting to get an element to change from
one layout to another with out weirdness.
I've only made one responsive site so far and I had to really "dumb it
down" to get used to the work method itself, the order I should be doing
things, trying to gear for mobile first. I'm in the midst of a ton of
experimentation.
Here's the site so far if my own code can help you at all:
http://jacque.sitesbyjoe.com
I wouldn't user this building method on a client site unless they
specifically wanted it at this point or until I figure out some more
tricks to working this way. Would I offer it? Heck yes. I want to master
the style and I'm sure you do too.
Keep at it.
*Joseph R. B. Taylor*
/Web Designer/Developer/
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On 9/25/11 5:38 PM, tee wrote:
I would love to hear what other think about the approach for device-width vs
max/min width.
For myself, I have done a couple sites targeting device-width and really think
this is better approach. The hype about responsive design got me to try out the
max/min width approach, I find that I need to tackle more the the window
resizes (and this means writing more CSS rules means penalizing touchscreen
device user), and the experience can be quite awful seeing it from desktop
browser.
I'm sort of in a defeated mood right now, really feel that except the ego to show off,
I'm unable to find a convincing reason that desktop user needs to be given a
"responsive website" anything smaller than 800px.
tee
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