In response to your issue #2 below, I have had good luck with putting MQs on link elements, and then repeating the link elements without MQs inside a conditional comment for 7 & 8, allowing the cascade work to deliver a desktop-only layout for old IE. I hate poly filling everything and also had bad luck with respond.js.
I'm playing with sass now to use its import method to get all the above to work with only 2 http requests instead of several, but using the same concept. HTH — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Micky Hulse <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the replies, I really appreciate it! :) > @jon: Thanks for pointing me towards Bootstrap. That's an area of > Bootstrap I have not explored (I've mostly studied Bootstrap in terms > of the LESS setup). I'll take the time to look into the MQs used there > and the docs/philosophy/thinking behind their setup. > @tom: Thank you for your feedback! I experiment with your suggestion > of undoing the desktop styles. > @david: Thanks for the code example, that's helpful. > @philippe: Thanks for help! I appreciate the examples as well. :) > My main reason for wanting to learn more about (primarily) using > max-width is that I'd like to see if it helps me solve (or, come close > to solving) these two problems: > 1. Allowing desktop styles to print by default. > 2. Allowing old IE to load desktop layout by default. > In reference to #2 above, for my latest project we're using respond.js > as a polyfill for older IEs (IE < 8) and it's a huge headache to > manage due to our CSS assets being on multiple servers. The respond.js > overhead is just to much of a burden. I'm wanting to explore a desktop > first approach to see if that technique gets us any closer to having a > manageable solutions for the items listed above. > Thanks again folks! I owe ya'll an Oregon microbrew. :) > Cheers, > M > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [[email protected]] > 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 [[email protected]] 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/
