A different way of looking at responsive design: Intention.js

Re:A different way of looking at responsive design: Intentio... by joshribakoff on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @02:36PM (#6285272)

Unintentional straw-man argument. If the device adapts from 400px width to 300px, then there's no need to send me the markup that's applicable to 600px.

Github for example serves different markup to mobile, while simultaneously implementing responsive design on client side.

Responsive design is great until you force my phone to download 0.25mb of HTML it will never render. So what I'm suggesting is two layouts, both responsive.. one for desktops, other layout (also responsive) is for mobile devices.

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Re:A different way of looking at responsive design: Intentio... by jmhnilbog on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @02:54PM (#6285388)

While the demo site doesn't go this far, it would be possible to send minimal code to the client with basic client-sniffing 'intentions', then use that information to trigger some wacky ajax or redirect with more targeted markup.

Many 'intentions' respond to live events, so sometimes it makes sense to give all the markup up front. Take a look at some of the goofier examples, like animation (http://intentionjs.com/2013/03/12/walking-man.html).

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Re:A different way of looking at responsive design: Intentio... by dubcanada on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @03:11PM (#6285484)

Server side device stuff is annoyingly hard to get 100% correct though, you need to get a giant library that needs to be updated every week and requires a massive amount of resources to scan over the list of devices to find the one that is currently browsing.

But I kinda of agree, if you are browsing at 400px's you shouldn't be getting stuff for 1024px's. And vice versa.

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