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RESS essentials / Joanna Krenz-Kurowska, Jerzy Kurowski.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krenz-Kurowska, Joanna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Web site development.
- Web sites--Design.
- Web sites.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a step-by-step, practical guide which will introduce you to RESS and its key features.This book is aimed primarily at web developers interested in writing applications that leverage both client- and server-side code to optimise content for various devices.
- Contents:
- Intro
- RESS Essentials
- Table of Contents
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Downloading the example code
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Why Does RWD Change the Internet?
- The RESS idea
- Controversies
- Separate mobile websites are a good thing
- RWD is too difficult
- RWD means degrading design
- RWD benefits
- Freedom for designers
- Invest less, reach out to a larger audience
- Users
- Developers
- RWD evolution and experiments
- Summary
- 2. Sample RWD Setup for Client-Side Development
- Bootstrap custom compilation setup
- Testing the Bootstrap grid system
- Integrating Gridpak
- Implementing responsive design
- 3. Server Side Setup - Device Detection Libraries
- The AGPL licensed "OnSite" version of the WURFL library
- The WURFL Cloud version
- YABFDL - Detector
- 4. Sample RESS Page
- WURFL plus screen size detection
- Dave Olsen's Detector
- Pure JavaScript screen size test
- Utility functions
- Dave Olsen's Detector plus WURFL
- 5. Responsive Images Client- and Server-Side Approaches
- Scaling responsive images is not linear
- Plain CSS and Media queries - a solution with limited browser support
- The <
- picture>
- tag proposition
- Picturefill that mimics the <
- tag behavior with HTML5 and JS
- Automated creation of responsive images
- Server Side - using one of our example RESS systems
- 6. Performance
- Optimizing website towards screen size or bandwidth?
- Optimizing images
- Optimizing image dimensions.
- Optimizing image compression
- Optimizing the file format
- Avoiding the use of images
- Reducing the number of images
- Media queries optimization
- Testing
- 7. Extending with jQuery
- Twitter Bootstrap components and plugins
- Responsive tables
- Converting a table to an accordion element with jQuery
- Masonry
- 8. Employing a REST API for RWD
- REST API
- Slim PHP framework and integrating the RESS module
- Defining API with the Slim framework
- Gateway file and path setup
- Implementing routes
- Adding photos
- What is it good for?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 2, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 9781849696951
- 1849696950
- OCLC:
- 862378706
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