Table of Contents for
Mastering Responsive Web Design

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Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition Mastering Responsive Web Design by Ricardo Zea Published by Packt Publishing, 2015
  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Mastering Responsive Web Design
  4. Mastering Responsive Web Design
  5. Credits
  6. About the Author
  7. Acknowledgment
  8. About the Reviewers
  9. www.PacktPub.com
  10. Preface
  11. What you need for this book
  12. Who this book is for
  13. Conventions
  14. Reader feedback
  15. Customer support
  16. 1. Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design
  17. The basic concepts of Sass for RWD
  18. Summary
  19. 2. Marking Our Content with HTML5
  20. The
  21. The
    element
  22. The
  23. The
    element
  24. The
  25. The
  26. Using WAI-ARIA landmark roles to increase accessibility
  27. A full HTML5 example page with ARIA roles and meta tags
  28. Output screenshots for desktop and mobile
  29. Summary
  30. 3. Mobile-first or Desktop-first?
  31. Sass mixins for the mobile-first and desktop-first media queries
  32. Dealing with legacy browsers
  33. How to deal with high-density screens
  34. Sometimes RWD is not necessarily the right solution
  35. Retrofitting an old website with RWD
  36. Retrofitting with AWD
  37. Retrofitting with RWD
  38. Summary
  39. 4. CSS Grids, CSS Frameworks, UI Kits, and Flexbox for RWD
  40. CSS grids
  41. CSS frameworks
  42. UI kits
  43. The pros and cons of CSS frameworks for RWD
  44. Creating a custom CSS grid
  45. Building a sample page with the custom CSS grid
  46. Stop using CSS grids, use Flexbox!
  47. Summary
  48. 5. Designing Small UIs Driven by Large Finger
  49. The posture patterns and the touch zones
  50. The nav icon – basic guidelines to consider for RWD
  51. The navigation patterns for RWD
  52. Summary
  53. 6. Working with Images and Videos in Responsive Web Design
  54. Third-party image resizing services
  55. The element and the srcset and sizes attributes
  56. Replacing 1x images with 2x images on the fly with Retina.js
  57. Making videos responsive
  58. The Vector Formats
  59. Summary
  60. 7. Meaningful Typography for Responsive Web Design
  61. Calculating relative font sizes
  62. Creating a Modular Scale for a harmonious typography
  63. Using the Modular Scale for typography
  64. Web fonts and how they affect RWD
  65. Sass mixin for implementing web fonts
  66. Using FlowType.js for increased legibility
  67. Summary
  68. 8. Responsive E-mails
  69. Don't overlook your analytics
  70. Recommendations for building better responsive e-mails
  71. Responsive e-mail build
  72. Third-party services
  73. Summary
  74. Index

Sass mixins for the mobile-first and desktop-first media queries

For our examples, there are two types of Sass mixins we're going to use in this book: a mobile-first mixin that uses the min-width property and a desktop-first mixin that uses the max-width property. We already saw the following mixins and how they worked in Chapter 1, Harness the Power of Sass for Responsive Web Design, but here's a refresher.

The mobile-first mixin

We're going to use the following mobile-first mixin:

@mixin forLargeScreens($media) {
    @media (min-width: $media/16+em) { @content; }
}

This is how we use it:

header {
   //Properties for small screens
    width: 50%;
    background: red;
    @include forLargeScreens(640) {
      //Properties for large screens
        width: 100%;
        background: blue;
    }
}

This compiles to the following:

header {
    width: 50%;
    background: red;
}

@media (min-width: 40em) {
    header {
        width: 100%;
        background: blue;
    }
}

The desktop-first mixin

Here's the desktop-first mixin we're going to use:

@mixin forSmallScreens($media) {
    @media (max-width: $media/16+em) { @content; }
}

This is how we use it:

header {
    //Properties for large screens
    width: 100%;
    background: purple;
    @include forSmallScreens(640) {
      //Properties for small screens
        width: 50%;
        background: yellow;
    }
}
@include forSmallScreens

This compiles to the following:

header {
    width: 100%;
    background: purple;
}

@media (max-width: 40em) {
    header {
        width: 50%;
        background: yellow;
    }
}

Tip

The great thing about using these mixins is that it's incredibly easy to find out which approach is being used, because we can see either the term forLargeScreens or forSmallScreens is repeated all over our SCSS file. If someone else were to edit any of the work we initially did, they will get a clear idea of which approach we used to build our site/app just by scanning the SCSS file.