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by danShumway
850 days ago
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> is much better with thought-out styling for different widths. When people talk about responsive design, we don't mean that you shouldn't be thinking about styling for different widths. We mean that what you come up with is a singular design that responds to changes in screen size and font size, whether that's using breakpoints, wrapping, hiding and showing elements, or a combination of all of these things -- as opposed to building a completely separate interface that the user can only access through a separate URL or application (if it's even available on their device in the first place). Yeah, you'll get bad interfaces if you only think about one screen size, but responsive design is explicitly about not only thinking about one screen size. Amazon is maybe a bad example here; their site doesn't implement great responsive design as far as I can tell. Scale down a window too far on Desktop and the site just throws a horizontal scrollbar at you. This is despite the fact that Amazon absolutely could collapse down into a single-column view. I disagree that Amazon's interface is so complicated that it needs a full browser width, it's a vertical list of horizontally floating elements, it's a great candidate for wrapping listings and for collapsing down the menus based on a breakpoint. But I'm left sort of feeling like we're talking past each other. I agree that you should think about multiple sizes. I don't see what that has to do with whether or not CSS is well-suited for building interfaces, I would argue that CSS makes it easier to think about multiple screen sizes when building interfaces. I think that's CSS's strength as opposed to static layout tools that lack the expressiveness to describe what you want to happen when a column gets too narrow or to set things like margins based on text size instead of pixels or on and on. Those tools are all really useful when building interfaces that actually adapt to different settings/resolutions. |
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