"Responsive" web?
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- cannada
According to wiki, the term 'responsive' was coined in 2010 for web and 2013 was the "year of responsive design.
I get most monitors were the same size 10 years ago, but is it really that new? People always have opened their browsers at different sizes. It seems like it should have been implemented in like 2006.
- sine0
smartphones and tablets
- animatedgif0
"People always have opened their browsers at different sizes"
But parts of the page didn't shoot about the screen, disappear or grind scrolling to a slow chug when you resize the browser.
RESPONSIVE!!!!!
- No one browses like that though.set
- Exactly, so why animate it at allanimatedgif
- uan0
in the early 90's html1 was 'responsive', ie text adapts to browser width automatically. great part of the web was coded with % width.
late 90's css1 and css2 were specified, but the browsers didn't implement all of it or did it in different ways, so it couldn't be used.
what happened in the 2010+ was that suddenly the browsers started to function as they should (corresponding to the w3 specifications), and therefore the use of different html/css/js techniques to adapt content to the browser width got summarized into the term 'responsive'.
- Peter0
Haven't the browser technically been "responsive" since it's first, modern iteration? Streching your netscape window meant things moved around, albeit usually not in a pleasant manner unless you used it the boring way it was intended to be used.
It's a "web 2.0". It's been around, it's been worked toward, but there wasn't enough tangible- or relatable buzzwords about it for the avarage Jane and Joe to use.
Granted, more trix around now. But wasn't one of Flash'es very first and basic ideas that to combat different sizes and resolutions?
- animatedgif0
"Flash'es very first and basic ideas that to combat different sizes and resolutions?"
Yes but the amount of code you'd need to write just to get even the most basic of CSS layout functionality is absolutely ridiculous... and every developers implementation was different.
- < this. when macromedia marketed flash to 'combat different sizes and resolutions' - they only meant by scaling.kingsteven
- Yes. And pray tell, how much "CSS layout functionality" outside of flash there in mid/late 90ies?Peter
- jus tables n framesprophetone
- monNom0
media queries are what changed. Flash/JS/Scaling were the only tools before.
- prophetone0
all hail the css media query
- ukit20
I think some of you are confusing full width or liquid layouts with responsive. Responsive implies that there are different styles that get triggered when the page is viewed at different page widths. This is a feature of CSS3 and was officially "released" as part of the standard in 2012, although I think most browsers had already implemented it at that point.
- Different page widths or different height, device, etcukit2
- onResize were around before. Lots of other. The rudimentary forms of responsive. My point: just like web 2.0 it was just a word to encapsulate a collection of functions to give Joe/Jane something more tangible.Peter
- collection of functions to give Joe/Jane something more tangible.Peter