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 supported MQ's by now....I could be wrong.
As for me I work from the desktop down, it just makes more sense for me. Eric > On August 22, 2013 at 9:10 PM "Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh" > <sandy.pittendr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 at the smallest resolution, and > then uses media queries (and sometimes Javascript) to add floats and what > ever else is needed to make the site look right as the view port increases. > > This came as a surprise to me. I assumed everybody did the opposite: still > build for the desktop, then fiddle with media queries and viewport widths > to make the site acceptable for pads and phones too. > > His approach does sometimes require Javascript, to loop through all the > block elements of a certain class and then add to add CSS as needed. > > What are the group's thoughts about this approach? Do you build from the > desktop down, or from the cell phone up? > > -- > /* Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh >--oO0> */ > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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 [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
