Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design - Part 2 by Smashing Magazine

By Smashing Magazine

Responsive layout is a default nowadays, yet we're all nonetheless understanding simply the correct technique and methods to raised craft responsive web pages. That’s why Smashing journal created a brand new ebook — to assemble functional ideas and methods from those that have discovered how one can get issues performed correct, in genuine tasks with real real-world challenges.

The Smashing booklet five: Real-Life Responsive website design is Smashing Magazine’s fresh e-book with clever front-end recommendations and layout styles derived from real-life responsive initiatives. half 2 beneficial properties eight chapters on net fonts, responsive photographs, responsive e-mail, debugging, functionality and offline adventure, — simply what you must grasp the entire difficult elements and hurdles of responsive design.

Written through Andrew Clarke, Bram Stein, Fabio Carneiro, John Allsopp, Matt Gaunt, Tom Maslen, Yoav Weis and Vitaly Friedman.

Please be aware that the corresponding half 1 of Smashing booklet five is additionally to be had with much more responsive website design counsel and tips — between others on responsive workflow, SVG, Flexbox, content material method and layout patterns.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• A Responsive method ahead — written by way of Vitaly Friedman

• net Fonts functionality — written through Bram Stein

• Responsive photographs — written by way of Yoav Weiss

• trying out And Debugging Responsive website design — written by way of Tom Maslen

• Responsive e-mail layout — written via Fabio Carneiro

• functionality Optimization Roadmap — written by means of Vitaly Friedman

• past Responsive: Optimizing For Offiline — written by way of John Allsopp and Matt Gaunt

• Counting Stars: Creativity Over Predictability — written through Andrew Clarke

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We have an interest in keeping the file size as small as possible, so the next optimization after selecting font formats is to subset the font, by removing characters and features you don’t need. Removing them will reduce the file size of your web font significantly. Contact the font foundry if your license doesn’t permit subsetting or if you have any questions about subsets — they’re often happy to help. Subsetting works well for languages and scripts that have clearly defined boundaries. It is usually better to first load a minimal subset followed by a larger superset, than two or more complementary subsets.

As we’ll see later, we also have a way to indicate to browsers that we need images that are smaller than that. How can we do that? Well, changing the CSS so that the image’s container is as wide as 33% of the viewport is not a problem, but how do we tell browsers that the image they need to load won’t be as wide as the viewport but a third of that size? You can think of it as browsers translating all the w descriptors into x descriptors internally. When your screen’s DPR is higher (or when you zoom in), larger images are more likely to get picked.

In fact, we at the RICG are planning on adding h descriptors in the future that will enable just that, but because height-based selection is a weaker use case, it was decided that handling height as part of the specification and native implementations would have to be part of the next phase rather than the current one. Doing so would result in significant delays and possible double downloads. And if browsers can’t wait for the display dimensions, how can they use the image’s physical dimensions to determine which resource to download?

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