Responsive web design turns ten. — Ethan Marcotte

2010 was quite a year:

And exactly three weeks after Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers was first published, “Responsive Web Design” went live in A List Apart.

Nothing’s been quite the same since.

I remember being at that An Event Apart in Seattle where Ethan first unveiled the phrase and marvelling at how well everything just clicked into place, perfectly capturing the zeitgeist. I was in. 100%.

Responsive web design turns ten. — Ethan Marcotte

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An Interactive Guide to CSS Container Queries

Another terrific interactive tutorial from Ahmad, this time on container queries.

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Extending Responsive Video with HTML Web Components | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer

Scott gives a thorough step-by-step walkthrough of building an HTML web component, in this case for responsive video:

In this post, I’m going to talk briefly about responsive video, but most of the post will be about using HTML web components to extend native video behavior in very helpful ways. But even if you’re not particularly interested in video development, stick around as I’ll demonstrate how to build an HTML Web Component to progressively enhance anything you need.

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Getting started with CSS container queries | MDN Blog

Michelle has written a detailed practical guide to container queries here.

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zachleat/table-saw: A small web component for responsive `table` elements.

Now, this is how you design a web component. It’s a progressive enhancement.

Wrap your existing table element inside table-saw and it will behave responsively. If anything goes wrong with the JavaScript, the fallback is the regular table that’s already in your markup.

I just wish the installation didn’t assume that you’re using npm …it’s not really “zero dependency” if it depends on that.

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Container Queries and Typography

I feel like we need a name for this era, when CSS started getting real good.

I think this is what I’ve been calling declarative design.

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