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Vernon Fowler

» CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool's Gold Cloud Four Blog - 0 views

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  • The photographs come to life when you hover over them.
  • There are some good uses of CSS media queries. If you’re building a discrete web application where you have more control and can make sure that the desktop web isn’t bloated, it can make sense.
  • Two methods that appear to work are: Setting the parent of an element with a background image to display:none.3 Using media query min-width declaration to only specify a minimum browser width for the desktop image and a max-width for the mobile image does result in only the mobile image being downloaded in Mobile Safari.5 These two options mean that using CSS media queries isn’t completely impossible, but using the parent element to hide images and changing existing desktop CSS to add min-width declarations are significant changes to existing CSS. It isn’t going to be as simple as adding a CSS media query for mobile and calling your job done.
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  • If you send the same HTML and Javascript to the mobile user that you do for the desktop user, even if you format it to fit their screen, you’re likely missing opportunities to provide a great mobile experience based on the capabilities of the device and the context of the mobile user.
  • But the core mechanism used to accomplish them, CSS media queries, isn’t up to the task when it comes to mobile development.
  • In both cases, it showed the image files are downloaded despite the fact that the media query has set them to display:none. This means that the iPhone downloads an extra 172K for photos that the user will never see.
  • More desktop web sites that take advantage of fluid grids and CSS media queries to optimize for the multiple sizes of desktop screens. Media queries still make sense for desktop designs.
  • Also, Ros Hodgekiss from Campaign Monitor wrote an exceptional article on how you can use media queries in html email to provide a mobile optimized layout. This is perhaps the ideal use case because when you send html email, you have no choice but to send a single html document regardless of what device the recipient will be using.
  • Does your desktop web home page use geolocation lookups? Probably not. Should your mobile site home page? Quite possibly.
  • Ignoring the Mobile Context The promise of CSS media queries is that you can take your existing desktop web site html and add this additional presentation layer for mobile. Doing so ignores the fact that a mobile user may have very different needs than a desktop user.
Vernon Fowler

Mobile Site vs. Full Site (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • Build a separate mobile-optimized site (or mobile site) if you can afford it. When people access sites using mobile devices, their measured usability is much higher for mobile sites than for full sites.
  • If mobile users arrive at your full site's URL, auto-redirect them to your mobile site.
  • Why Full Sites Don't Work for Mobile Use
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  • Mobile-Optimized Sites The complete design guidelines for mobile websites require almost 300 pages, so I can't cover everything here. The basic ideas are to: cut features, to eliminate things that are not core to the mobile use case; cut content, to reduce word count and defer secondary information to secondary pages; and enlarge interface elements, to accommodate the "fat finger" problem.
  • The design challenge is to place the cut between mobile and full-site features in such a way that the mobile site satisfies almost all the mobile users' needs. If this goal is achieved, the extra interaction cost of following the link to the full site will be incurred fairly rarely.
  • Vernon Fowler on 10 May 12
     
    "Good mobile user experience requires a different design than what's needed to satisfy desktop users. Two designs, two sites, and cross-linking to make it all work."
Vernon Fowler

Mobile Boilerplate: A best practice baseline for your mobile web app - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • helps you create rich, performant, and modern mobile web apps. Kick-start your project with dozens of mobile optimizations and helpers.
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