Responsive Development (ZendCon 2012)

Musketeers.me Responsive Development Kevin Bruce of Musketeers.me

Who Am I? Designer Developer Musketeers.me2

Where I Work Musketeers.me3

Musketeers.me THE Question: Is a responsive site the best way to go for my site?

Options iPhone Camera Compass Accelerometer Geolocation Full Responsive Site Dedicated Mobile Site Native Application Musketeers.me5

Full Responsive Site Benefits • One Codebase • Same html file serves all devices Drawbacks • Not completely tailored to any device • Unless you have a process in place, it can take as much time to write as a separate mobile site Musketeers.me6

Dedicated Mobile Site Benefits • Cater to mobile content needs like Location and contact info • Can concentrate on touch-based UI Drawbacks • Completely separate codebase and content to maintain • Studies have shown that a separate “paired-down” site pisses people off. Musketeers.me7

Native Mobile App Benefits • Native access to device hardware • Interface is more responsive Drawbacks • Development cost is high to write and maintain • At least two mobile Operating Systems to write for Musketeers.me8

My Own Personal Decision-Makers Dedicated Native Responsive Site Mobile Site Application • Information • Shopping Cart • Full Web Website Application • Login-Based • Light Interactive Website • Giant Shopping Website Cart Musketeers.me9

Musketeers.me Responsive Design

In a Nutshell flexible grid layouts that respond to the size of your browser window (viewport). Musketeers.me11

Flexible Grid is the Key to Responsive Design A flexible grid is made up of fluid columns and rows that use ems and percentages for setting width, height, font-size, image and media sizes. Musketeers.me12

Media Queries Media Queries are a CSS3 feature that was introduced into the modern browser. It is a series of “break points” based on your browser window (or “viewport”) size. Your browser only uses the styles within the breakpoint that matches your viewport size. Of course, it also uses styles outside of any breakpoints as well. Musketeers.me13

Media Queries 1. Use the @import rule to import styles from other style sheets: <div id=”google_whitespace” style=”@import url(style600min.css) screen and (min-width: 600px);”> </div> Musketeers.me14

Media Queries 2. Put media queries directly in the style sheet. This is the most common approach. @media screen and (min-width: 400px) and (orientation: portrait) { #nav li { float: right; } } @media screen and (min-width: 800px) { #nav li { float: left; } } Musketeers.me15

Media Queries 3. Include a query in a linked style sheet’s media attribute: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen and (max-device-width: 800px)" href="style800.css" /> Musketeers.me16

Mobile First style.css Depending on who you talk body { … } to, mobile-first is the way to go. @media only screen and (min-width: 200px) Design for mobile, serve the mobile mobile breakpoints first and then progressively enhance from there for @media only screen and (min-width: 1020px) larger viewports. tablet Use “min-width” breakpoints so the @media only screen and larger screens inherit styles from the (min-width: 1450px) smaller viewport break points, in desktop effect, cascading up. Musketeers.me17

Mobile Content First The important take-away from mobile-first is “content-first.” Distill your message down to the essentials! Start with the content you would show in your mobile view and add in the Design cruff from there. Also, write semantic markup! Musketeers.me18

Musketeers.me Responsive Development

Server Side Help Server side is an alternate, powerful tool to help support your responsive front end strategy. User Agent Detection can tell you if a device is using a mobile browser, as well as “The IE.” Musketeers.me20

Server Side Help Server Side User Agent Detection can help your responsive front end strategy. With it, your code can help mobile and tablet pages by: • Compacting javascript and styles, insert them directly into the html page and serve them as one document, lessening the server trips. Musketeers.me21

Server Side Help Server Side User Agent Detection can help your responsive front end strategy. With it, your code can help mobile and tablet pages by: • Compacting javascript and styles, insert them directly into the html page and serve them as one document, lessening the server trips. • Server touch-based javascript for touch devices and omit unneeded code. Musketeers.me22

Server Side Help Server Side User Agent Detection can help your responsive front end strategy. With it, your code can help mobile and tablet pages by: • Compacting javascript and styles, insert them directly into the html page and serve them as one document, lessening the server trips. • Server touch-based javascript for touch devices and omit unneeded code. • Embed images with Data URIs for mobile (http://css- tricks.com/data-uris/). Musketeers.me23

Server Side Help Server Side User Agent Detection can help your responsive front end strategy. With it, your code can help mobile and tablet pages by: • Compacting javascript and styles, insert them directly into the html page and serve them as one document, lessening the server trips. • Server touch-based javascript for touch devices and omit unneeded code. • Embed images with Data URIs for mobile (http://css- tricks.com/data-uris/). • Serve correctly sized images for the device. Musketeers.me24

Musketeers.me The IE

State of IEEEEEEE • IE 6: it sucks, but government still has a lot of internal systems that only work on it, so… • IE 7: Sucks less, but few rely on it for internal systems (see IE 6) • IE 8: really a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t support media queries or html5… and many CSS3 features. • IE 9: This is the big improvement! Standards compliant… sort of (it’s all relative, isn’t it?). HTML5, media queries- all good! • IE 10: reported to be awesome with web standards (really!)… and sooo many people don’t have it yet. Musketeers.me26

IE retrofits IE 8 and below can usually be taught html5 and media queries with the help of a couple of javascripts: 1. Modernizer.js teaches pre-HTML5 browsers to see the new HTML5 tags as block elements. (http://modernizr.com) 2. Respond.js teaches IE what media queries are and how to use them. (https://github.com/scottjehl/Respond) Musketeers.me27

Musketeers.me What can we do with a mobile device?

Hardware We Can Access Varies iPhone Android Camera Compass Accelerometer Geolocation Musketeers.me29

Hardware We Can Access Varies HTML5 standards opened up access to much of device hardware. And more and broader support is coming. • Solid support for the accelerometer and GPS in both iOS and Android. • Access to the GPU (WebGL) and audio hardware (Web Audio API). • Access to the camera (HTML Media Capture) is a very new feature and has full support in Android 3.0 and limited support in iOS6 Safari and Chrome. Musketeers.me30

Are we there yet? Facebook’s stint with an html5 app was universally panned. The roars of applause were deafening when the native app was released. So… no, you shouldn’t try to imitate a native app with responsive design. You will most likely fail. Musketeers.me31

However… The one thing Facebook did accomplish was the responsive site was a good test case. Responsive Design is good prototype for the native app. …provided you don’t drive them away in the process. Slap “Beta” on it! Musketeers.me32

Good Resources MOBILE-FIRST http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/responsivedesign/ A NON-RESPONSIVE APPROACH TO BUILDING CROSS-DEVICE WEBAPPS http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/cross-device/ CAPTURING AUDIO & VIDEO IN HTML5 http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/ CREATING A MOBILE-FIRST RESPONSIVE WEB DESIGN http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/responsivedesign/ CONDITIONAL LOADING FOR RESPONSIVE DESIGN http://24ways.org/2011/conditional-loading-for-responsive-designs Musketeers.me33

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