A design approach that delivers elegant user interfaces regardless of the size of the user's display or the limitations of the device.
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Responsive web design Vs Separate website for Mobile
Responsive Web design is buzzword these days. which means to create a same website and optimized for all devices.
There are also some website which convert the desktop websites into Mobile website
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How to adapt your website for TV browsers?
Many home electronic brands have presented new television sets with built-in browsers and apps. Even though not many of these have enjoyed widespread adoption, the responsive web design movement talks ...
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Responsive Web Design - what should happen when the mobile device is rotated?
Currently, the standard behaviour for viewing web pages on a mobile is that:
If viewed in portrait the text is smaller because the width of the device is small and the whole page width needs to fit ...
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What is the exact difference between fluid and responsive design?
What is the exact difference between fluid and responsive design?
I am bit confused about fluid and responsive design. Fluid is the one where we give width in percentages so that design will look ...
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Is breaking established web conventions in order to be consistent across multiple devices an unexpected (and therefore harmful) user experience?
As a good working example: The standard convention is for mega menus to appear on hover (see sites such as play.com and next.co.uk).
This fits with Jakob's Law of the Web User Experience which ...
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Should users be forced into a responsive design (without the ability to opt out)?
There is nothing worse than getting automatically redirected to a mobile version of a site, and not having (or not easily finding) a "view normal site" link. It's not just that the mobile site is a ...
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How should large table columns be handled on a responsive design?
Related to This Question, I'm interested in what I should do with a responsive design theme where the users have control over the columns which are displayed in a tabular, data rich page. Users are ...
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Why is that the most popular sites don't use responsive design (and choose to use a mobile version instead)?
I think I don't have post screenshots. Most popular sites don't have responsive design (in fact I haven't seen any single one that does): Facebook, YouTube, Quora, Twitter, and the list goes on. With ...
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Best way to indicate that a image gallery can be swiped left-right on mobile/tablet
I'm in the process of adding responsive design to our website and one of the main features that users interact with is our image gallery (we are an editorial-based website). At normal viewport sizes, ...
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What's the best approach for header/footer in responsive web design?
I'm an IA doing a responsive site, as part of a much larger scale e-commerce site. Our pages are the only responsive parts of the overall site, so 90% of our site will not yet be responsive. Part of ...
