Frain B. - Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3 [2012, PDF/EPUB, ENG] + Code

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started with HTML5, CSS3, and Responsive Web Design
Why smart phones are important (and old IE isn't)
Are there times when a responsive design isn't the right choice?
Defining responsive web design
Why stop at responsive design?
Examples of responsive web design
Get your viewport testing tools here!
Online sources of inspiration
HTML5—why it's so good
Saving time and code with HTML5
New, semantically meaningful HTML5 tag elements
CSS3 enables responsive designs and more
The bottom line—CSS3 won't break anything!
How can CSS3 solve everyday design problems?
Look Ma'—no images!
What else has CSS3 got to offer?
Can HTML5 and CSS3 work for us today?
Responsive web designs are not magic bullets
Educating our clients that websites shouldn't look the same in all browsers
Summary

Chapter 2: Media Queries: Supporting Differing Viewports
You can use media queries today
Why responsive designs need media queries?
Media query syntax
What can media queries test for?
Using media queries to alter our design
The best way to load media queries for responsive designs
Our first responsive design
Don't panic but our design is fixed-width
Responsive designs—making images as economical as possible
Content clipping in smaller viewports
Stopping modern mobile browsers from auto-resizing the page
Fixing the design for different viewport widths
With responsive designs, content should always come first
Media queries—only part of the solution
We need a fluid layout
Summary

Chapter 3: Embracing Fluid Layouts
Fixed layouts aren't future proof
Why proportional layouts are essential for responsive designs
Amending a design from fixed to proportional layout
A formula to remember
Setting a context for proportional elements
It's always important to remember the context
Using ems rather than pixels for typography
Fluid images
Making images scale with the viewport
Specific rules for specific images
Putting the brakes on fluid images
The incredibly versatile max-width property
Serving different images for different screen sizes
Setting up Adaptive Images
Put background images somewhere else
Where fluid grids and media queries come together
CSS Grid systems
Rapidly building our site with a Grid system
Summary

Chapter 4: HTML5 for Responsive Designs
What parts of HTML5 can we use today?
Most sites can be written in HTML5
Polyfills, shims, and Modernizr
How to write HTML5 pages
Economies of using HTML5
A sensible approach to HTML5 markup
All hail the mighty <a> tag
Obsolete HTML features
New semantic elements in HTML5
The <section> element
The <nav> element
The <article> element
The <aside> element
The <hgroup> element
The HTML5 outline algorithm
The <header> element
The <footer> element
The <address> element
Practical usage of HTML5's structural elements
What about the main content of the site?
HTML5 text-level semantics
The <b> element
The <em> element
The <i> element
Applying text-level semantics to our markup
Adding accessibility to your site with WAI-ARIA
ARIA's landmark roles
Embedding media in HTML5
Adding video and audio the HTML5 way
Providing alternate source files
Fallback for older browsers
Audio and video tags work almost identically
Responsive video
Offline Web applications
Offline Web applications in a nut shell
Making web pages work offline
Understanding the manifest file
Automatic loading of pages to the offline manifest
About that version comment
Viewing the site offline
Troubleshooting Offline Web applications
Summary

Chapter 5: CSS3: Selectors, Typography, and Color Modes
What CSS3 offers the frontend developer
CSS3 support in Internet Explorer versions 6 to 8
Using CSS3 to design and develop pages in the browser
Anatomy of a CSS rule
Vendor prefixes and how to use them
Quick and useful CSS3 tricks
CSS3 multiple columns for responsive designs
Adding a gap and column divider
Word wrapping
New CSS3 selectors and how to use them
CSS3 attribute selectors
CSS3 substring matching attribute selectors
A practical, real world example
CSS3 structural pseudo-classes
The :last-child selector
The nth-child selectors
Understanding what nth rules do
The negation (:not) selector
Amendments to pseudo-elements
Is :first-line handy for responsive designs?
Custom web typography
The @font-face CSS rule
Implementing web fonts with @font-face
Help—my CSS3 @font-face headings look messy
A note about custom @font-face typography and responsive designs
New CSS3 color formats and alpha transparency
RGB color
HSL color
Fallback color values for IE6, IE7, and IE8
Alpha channels
Summary

Chapter 6: Stunning Aesthetics with CSS3
Text shadows with CSS3
HEX, HSL, or RGB color allowed
Pixels, em, or rem
Preventing a text shadow
Left and top shadows
Creating an embossed text-shadow effect
Multiple text-shadows
Box shadows
Inset shadow
Multiple shadows
Background gradients
Linear background gradients
Breakdown of linear gradient syntax
Radial background gradients
Breakdown of radial gradient syntax
Repeating gradients
Background gradient patterns
Responsive considerations for CSS3
Bringing CSS3 properties together
Multiple background images
Background size
Background position
Background shorthand
More CSS3 features
Sizeable icons which are perfect for responsive designs
Summary

Chapter 7: CSS3 Transitions, Transformations, and Animations
What CSS3 transitions are and how we can use them
The properties of a transition
The transition shorthand property
Transition different properties over different periods of time
Understanding timing functions
Fun transitions for responsive web sites
CSS3 2D transformations
What can we transform?
scale
translate
rotate
skew
matrix
transform-origin property
Dabbling in CSS3 3D transformations
Breaking down the 3D effect
3D transformations not ready for prime time
Animating with CSS3
Putting CSS3 transformations and animations together
Summary

Chapter 8: Conquer Forms with HTML5 and CSS3
HTML5 forms
Understanding the component parts of HTML5 forms
placeholder
required
autofocus
autocomplete
list (and the associated datalist element)
HTML5 input types
email
number
url
tel
search
pattern
color
Date and time inputs
date
month
week
time
datetime and datetime-local
range
How to polyfill non-supporting browsers
Styling HTML5 forms with CSS3
Form-specific CSS3 pseudo class selectors
Summary

Chapter 9: Solving Cross-browser Responsive Challenges
Progressive enhancement versus graceful degradation
Reality
Should you fix old versions of Internet Explorer?
Statistics (again)
Personal choice
Modernizr—the frontend developer's Swiss army knife
Fix styling issues with Modernizr
Modernizr adds HTML5 element support for old IE
Add min/max media query capability for Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8
Conditional loading with Modernizr
Changing navigation links to a drop menu (conditionally)
High resolution devices (the future)
Summary

Index