Responsive Web Applications

At Squares Conf.

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1. Responsive Web
   Applications
   with Container Queries
   

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2. A talk more about
   process than code
   

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4. Beautiful
   Accounting
   Software
   

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8. Goal #1
   Evolve the design
   

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9. Goal #2
   Support Multiple
   Devices
   

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13. Goal #1
    Evolve the design
    

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14. Goal #2
    Support Multiple
    Devices
    

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15. Responsive
    

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16. Responsive
    

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19. Device-specific 

    design and
    development
    

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20. Designers see a
    feature through all
    platforms
    

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22. Goal #1
    Evolve the design
    

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23. Goal #2
    Support Multiple
    Devices
    

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27. Monolithic app with
    accessible templates
    

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28. Ignored Mobile Web
    

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29. Limited Mobile App
    

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32. Each horizontal block
    is considered in the
    context of the viewport
    

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38. Each page can more
    easily be art directed
    

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40. • No orders
    • One order
    • Less than one page of
    orders
    • Multiple pages of
    orders
    • Has Info Notifications
    • Tab overflow
    • Has Warning
    Notifications
    • Has limited access to
    features
    • Has different apps
    installed
    

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41. And now consider all of
    those things for
    multiple viewports
    

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42. A single page in a web
    application can have
    dozens of variations
    

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43. A component-based
    site has components
    respondingly differently
    to multiple contexts
    

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46. With media queries,
    you have to know the
    possible interplay of all
    objects
    

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47. With container
    queries, you only have
    to know the interplay
    within a single object
    

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48. No spec for
    container queries
    
    

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51. Declare in:
    CSS,
    HTML, or 

    JavaScript
    

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52. https://github.com/ResponsiveImagesCG/cq-demos
    .element:media( min-width:500px ) {}
    https://github.com/tysonmatanich/elementQuery
    .element[min-width~="500px"] {
    background-color: #eee;
    }
    

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53. http://elementqueries.com/
    @element ".element" and 

    (min-width: 500px) {
    .element {
    background: gold;
    }
    }
    

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54. https://github.com/tysonmatanich/elementQuery
    .element[min-width~="400px"] { }
    

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55. To parse CSS, either
    need to be on same
    domain or set up CORS
    

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56. https://github.com/Snugug/eq.js
    data-eq-pts="small: 400, medium: 600,
    large: 900"
    

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57. At HTML level, requires
    consistency of
    implementation 

    across app
    

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58. We chose JavaScript
    

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59. elements = [
    {
    "module": ".flex--2x1",
    "className":"responsiveClass",
    "minWidth": 768, "maxWidth": 1024
    }
    ]
    

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60. Going Responsive
    meant a consistent
    feature set across all
    devices
    

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61. New features
    automatically have
    cross-device support
    

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63. Went responsive in
    under a month†
    

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64. How the heck do
    you do that in a
    month?
    

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66. There’s a discernible
    delay in execution
    

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67. It’s not about the
    properties, it’s about
    the purpose.
    

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71. Tried to use grid
    classes for
    everything
    

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72. Had to write extra
    classes just to define
    responsive story
    

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73. Single purpose
    classes resulted in
    less edge cases (and
    less code!)
    

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74. Gzip minimizes
    duplicate properties
    really well
    

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75. Tables are difficult
    

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78. Avoid too much on
    the horizontal axis
    

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82. Goal #1
    Evolve the design
    

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83. Goal #2
    Support Multiple
    Devices
    

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84. Goal #1 reframed:
    Allow anybody to make
    product-wide design
    changes quickly and easily
    

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85. Problem:
    Different tech
    stacks
    

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87. Make the right
    things easy and the
    wrong things hard
    

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89. Yahoo! still does a
    custom experience
    per device
    

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90. Shopify is getting rid
    of Container Queries
    

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    …
    
    

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95. .two-columns {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    }
    .col1, .col2 { flex-grow: 1; }
    .col1 {
    flex-basis: 66%;
    min-width: 360px;
    }
    .col2 {
    flex-basis: 33%;
    }
    

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97. 
    
    
    
    Button
    
    
    

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98. .media-body {
    display: flex;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    }
    

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99. .media-content {
    flex-grow: 1;
    flex-basis: 400px;
    margin-right: 20px;
    }
    

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100. .media-actions {
     align-self: center;
     margin: 20px 0;
     }
     

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104. .items {
     display: grid;
     grid-template-columns:
     repeat(auto-fit, minmax(400px, 1fr));
     }
     

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     ...
     
     

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106. .box {
     display: flex;
     flex-wrap: wrap;
     }
     

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107. .box-image {
     flex-grow: 1;
     flex-shrink: 0;
     flex-basis: 150px;
     }
     .box-image > img {
     width: 100%;
     object-fit: cover;
     }
     

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108. .box-content {
     margin: 10px;
     flex-shrink: 1;
     flex-grow: 1;
     flex-basis: 60%;
     }
     

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110. Designers should
     think Responsive
     before they need to.
     

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111. Container Queries
     enable faster
     development
     

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112. Use techniques to
     avoid media or
     container queries
     altogether
     

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113. http://ricg.io
     

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114. Thank you.

     http:/
     /snook.ca/

     @snookca
     

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