BILL HINDERMAN

Building CSS responsively is the linchpin, the idea that shifts our efforts from building flexible websites to building responsive websites. This difference will become clearer as some terms are defined, but think of both fluidity and responsiveness as tools in your adaptive tool belt. Fluidity enables you to grow and shrink your content based upon its container. Responsiveness enables you to ask the container more about its attributes, and change how you handle your content. We're the first apes to touch the monolith... It's time to move away from implementation details and look at the bigger picture. Responsive design is not just a solution for the current state of devices, but a way to build proactively-anticipating the likely needs of future users in order to provide the best experience. This chapter ties the knowledge you've gained throughout this book to a more theoretical discussion about just how you should think about building web experiences... With more than 1.4 billion..

Also known as: responsive data visualization