Remember when web design practices shifted from the use of tables (and inline, often browser-specific JavaScript) to the use of (more) semantic markup and CSS (i.e., web standards)?
The popularity of small (and touch-sensitive) displays has now brought with it a similar shift: away from the large-screen-centered and often fixed-width layouts, and toward what was labeled responsive design.
In short, responsive web design is the combination of a fluid-width layout, scalable images and video, and the smart use of media queries to optimize ‘full-blown’ web pages for display on screens of any size.
Ethan Marcotte, responsible for the original A List Apart article, has now released a book of the same title, which could very soon become mandatory literature for everyone somehow involved in web design.
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