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Author Krenz-Kurowska, Joanna

Title RESS Essentials
Published Birmingham [UK] : Packt Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 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; Chapter 2: Sample RWD Setup for Client-Side Development; Bootstrap custom compilation setup; Testing the Bootstrap grid system; Integrating Gridpak
Implementing responsive designSummary; Chapter 3: Server Side Setup -- Device Detection Libraries; The AGPL licensed ""OnSite"" version of the WURFL library; The WURFL Cloud version; YABFDL -- Detector; Summary; Chapter 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; Summary; Chapter 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; tag proposition
Picturefill that mimics the tag behavior with HTML5 and JSAutomated creation of responsive images; Server Side -- using one of our example RESS systems; Summary; Chapter 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; Summary; Chapter 7: Extending with jQuery; Twitter Bootstrap components and plugins; Responsive tables
Converting a table to an accordion element with jQueryMasonry; Summary; Chapter 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?; Summary; Index
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
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Subject Web sites -- Design.
COMPUTERS -- General.
Web sites -- Design
Form Electronic book
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