Chapter 8. Responsive Design
Today’s Web page layouts need to be responsive to the many different environments in which they are displayed. There is a big difference between good user experience on a large monitor and on a mobile phone. A multi-column layout may make sense for a large monitor, but on a phone each column is so narrow as to be unreadable; a single, “serialized” column layout becomes the only feasible solution. It is then very easy and natural for the viewer to scroll the screen with a swipe gesture as she reads.
Here I am modifying the browser version for smaller screens, but there’s a lot to be said for designing for “mobile first.” ...
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