feb 17 2014 18:05 Colin (Sandy) Pittendrigh <sandy.pittendr...@gmail.com>:
> So > at higher big picture level some discussion about how CSS fits into the > overall scheme of things still seems appropriate. Exactly. > Using Javascript cookies and (initially) a double GET to determine the > state of the current user agent makes the most sense to me--so custom CSS, > custom image sizes and even custom HTML can be sent back down the pipe. I like Googles variheader concept. > CSS only "mobile first" approaches violate basic theory of programming > rules because mobile first inescapably couples itself to both small mobile > displays I disagree for the most part, but obviously this depends on the actual difference in user patterns and user objectives on different devices. I have embraced that the customers of my clients want to do everything on all types of devices. But envy site is different. > plus the vastly different requirements of bigger desktop displays. > Writing codes with semi-secret two role agendas is seldom a good idea. This does not make sense. Secret two role agendas? It’s different styles for equivalent content. For some content, like audio/video you may have to server different content and consequently different markup. I fail to see the problem with that though. ______________________________________________________________________ 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/