[hinkley]

I was pitching responsive (or at least, fluid) design by 2011, and I was not blazing trails. I started using the iPad as an example but tiny laptops were an issue, and in a business setting, most production projectors were only 1024 pixels, hardly anyone had the 1280s, and the cheap ones were 800x600 native with terrible interpolation.

Wikipedia has this timeline:

> Cameron Adams created a demonstration in 2004 that is still online.[46] By 2008, a number of related terms such as "flexible", "liquid",[47] "fluid", and "elastic" were being used to describe layouts. CSS3 media queries were almost ready for prime time in late 2008/early 2009.[48] Ethan Marcotte coined the term responsive web design[49] (RWD)—and defined it to mean fluid grid/ flexible images/ media queries—in a May 2010 article in A List Apart.[2] He described the theory and practice of responsive web design in his brief 2011 book titled Responsive Web Design. Responsive design was listed as #2 in Top Web Design Trends for 2012 by .net magazine after progressive enhancement at #1.

And while the Garden was indeed around long before that, IMO it didn’t get properly cool until maybe ‘07. And once fluid and responsive came in it wasn’t keeping up.

The point, I thought, was to be able to send people there to learn, and I was afraid of having to fix that kind of smoke and mirrors in our production code so I stopped telling people about it, other than other seasoned UI people fora particular design, and half the time it was to laugh at one, not learn from it.

[brigandish]

> IMO it didn’t get properly cool until maybe ‘07

Wikipedia says the book came out in 2005, which if I remember correctly had plenty of colour pics inside. You don't get that kind of tech book unless you're already properly cool.