A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
In addition to my talk “Embrace the Platform” at UX Ghent, James Gilyead and Trys Mudford from Clearleft also joined the meetup with a talk on Utopia. With Utopia you get to define the small- and large-screen layouts. All font sizes in between will be calculated by Utopia. Utopia →Meet Utopia: Designing And Building With …
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Nice tool by Adrian Bece that visualizes what values a Viewport Unit Based Typography (aka Fluid Typography) system will yield. Modern fluid typography editor → This tool is built after the Fluid Calculator, developed by Josh W Comeau for his CSS for JavaScript Developers Course.
Over at CSS-Tricks you can read a min-bending article by Temani Afif Since the introduction of media queries (literally decades ago), CSS has evolved to the points that there are a lot of tricks that can help us drastically reduce the usage of media queries we use. In some cases, I will show you how …
Max Böck: With container queries now on the horizon – will we need media queries at all? Is there a future where we build responsive interfaces completely without them? As Max details we will still need both, but will see a shift from some Media Queries to Container Queries. Good read; I found myself nodding …
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A common thing to do regarding font-sizing is to use Viewport Unit Based Typography, nowadays often combined with CSS min() or clamp(): :root { font-size: min(calc(1em + 1vw), 4em); } However, as Sara Soueidan details, Safari doesn’t co-operate here: In Safari on macOS, the fluid text wasn’t really fluid—resizing the viewport did nothing to the …
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In this session from Google I/O 2021, Una Kravets talks about “the new responsive”, short for being responsive to the user, container, and form-factor (text-version available via link below): The web community is entering into a new era of responsive design and shifting our perspectives on what it means. With user preference queries, container queries, …
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The logic behind displaying an image responsively is complicated. It involves determining how large the image will be displayed, as well as understanding whether the user is on a high-resolution display, among other things. Thankfully, the browser is better equipped than we are to handle this logic. All we need to do is give it …
On the web it is – by now – obvious that you make your website responsive (*). Using a listener listening to the change event of the Dimensions API, it’s also possible to implement this kind of behaviour in React Native. import {Component} from "react"; import {Dimensions} from "react-native"; export default class LogDimensionChanges extends Component …
Extensive writeup by Philip Walton on how he tackles the Container Queries problem. Instead of narrowly focusing on the specific CSS feature proposal we call “container queries”, I want to focus on the broader concept of building components that respond to their environment. And if you accept this larger framing, there are actually new web …
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Mike Riethmuller: It is possible to have precise control over responsive typography. Using calc() and viewport units you can create fluid type that scales perfectly between specific pixel values, within a specific viewport range. The formula used is this one: @media (min-width: #{$min_width}px) and (max-width: #{$max_width}px) { font-size: calc(#{$min_font}px + (#{$max_font} – #{$min_font}) * ( …