Re:Resilient Web Design
by aesthetics1 on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:09PM
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For a book about web design, this surely is poorly designed. I can't resize the text with my built-in browser zoom to make it comfortable to read. Everything seems to be based on the size of the browser window.
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Re:Resilient Web Design
by OberstKrueger on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:43PM
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There's a PDF available that makes it a little better.
https://resilientwebdesign.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/Resili...
It uses viewports units for type sizing. You can always turn off CSS
Re:Resilient Web Design
by simlevesque on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:17PM
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> You can always turn off CSS
Yeah but that kinda obliterates the whole point of reading something about good design.
Not trying to troll but good web design is about a lot more than CSS.
Re:Resilient Web Design
by simlevesque on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @03:59PM
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I know but I'm not talking about CSS, I'm talking about: try to read your own website before releasing it.
Re:Resilient Web Design
by serg_chernata on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @02:39PM
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Out of genuine curiosity, why? What happened to using "em" or "rem"?
the site isn't loading so I can't say for sure, but I'd guess the intention is something like fittext.js. which makes sense in some cases for large type inside of hero units etc, but even then you'll want sensible containers, and for body text, this is a terrible idea. em/rem are fine.