Re: [CODE4LIB] CSS positioning expertise needed

2015-10-30 Thread Kaile Zhu
We don't know what framework the designer uses. Likely proprietary, modified based on some open sources. So, it is hard for anyone to do some customization, if the hired designer is unwilling to help you. To me, the easiest way to achieve your goal is to embed some code to detect the

Re: [CODE4LIB] CSS positioning expertise needed

2015-10-30 Thread Kyle Breneman
Thanks so much to all who responded! As I said before, I was reluctant to share the full context with the list because I didn't want to share the in-house mock-ups I've received with the entire list. Here's a summary of the question and answers received: Context: Our library homepage is being

[CODE4LIB] Job: Position Available: Web Services Librarian (Full-time) at Meridian Library District

2015-10-30 Thread jobs
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Re: [CODE4LIB] CSS positioning expertise needed

2015-10-30 Thread Aeschleman, Luke
If you duplicate the block (even if it's hidden) it will load the content twice. Not a huge deal if it's static HTML, but if it's a lot of promotional images, this could slow down load times. I found this that might help http://tanalin.com/en/articles/css-block-order/ In theory, use media

Re: [CODE4LIB] CSS positioning expertise needed

2015-10-30 Thread Brian Zelip
> but the outside design company told us that this wouldn't be possible. They said: "It’s really a coding issue. When building a page with responsive design in mind, the code is going to stack elements almost like reading a book - top to bottom, left to right to fit the mobile view . . . Wow,

Re: [CODE4LIB] CSS positioning expertise needed

2015-10-30 Thread Michael Schofield
I think it's pretty cool to see how others might approach this problem. I replied to Kyle off-list but I kind of want to jump in too. He had sent me some additional info so I'm just going to edit liberally to stay on point but this is for a specific change request that I can't remember if it

Re: [CODE4LIB] CSS positioning expertise needed

2015-10-30 Thread Eric Larson
There are a lot of ways to shuffle the DOM around between breakpoints. I've used this javascript library to move blocks of markup between viewport sizes before: http://wicky.nillia.ms/enquire.js/ It adds media query support to JS, letting you call custom functions on and off whatever viewport