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Andy Budd and Emil Björklund, CSS Mastery, 10.1007/978-1-4302-5864-3_8

8. Responsive Web Design & CSS

Andy Budd and Emil Björklund2

(1)Brighton, UK

(2)Malmo, Sweden

When the iPhone made its debut in 2007, it marked a significant jump in the experience of browsing on a mobile device. People scrambled to make separate sites optimized for mobile and touchscreens, leading to the artificial notion of the “mobile web” and the “desktop web.”

Today, you can find browsers in phones ranging from the tiny to the almost comically oversized; small tablets, large tablets, small and large computers, TVs, watches, and all kinds of game consoles.

Creating a separate site for each of these form factors and input types is impossible, ...

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