On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 17:05:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 1/18/15 9:02 AM, aldanor wrote:
This is usually solved by media queries / responsive design /
grid
frameworks, sorry if I'm stating the obvious :) Try resizing
the
commonly used websites and see what happens, e.g. for
ruby-lang you have
at least 3 "versions" which are selected automatically based
on the
current viewport's settings which the browser provides:
http://imgur.com/a/gE38d
E.g. the menus on the left getting folded into one mobile
"button" which
expands them on demand and leaves more space for the actual
content, or
some elements disappearing in smaller viewports altogether
(like the
twitter feed div). This is quite a pain to manage manually
without
having an underlying grid framework.
My understanding is there are various simpler way to do this,
e.g. separate styles for small screen devices, redirection to a
different URL, setting "hidden" to certain DIVs dynamically
etc. etc. As you saying there's no way to do this unless we use
some grid framework I know nothing about and probably need to
learn? -- Andrei
when not using a css framework like this, then the app for the
mobile will consist of css and javascript hacks. and mostly one
would lack the designers' and frontend developers' experience :)
if i may, i'll go and straightly ask a very great designer friend
of mine to help us out. he'll either design a new interface for
us or help us make this one better. let me know your call.
