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Peter Gasston
May 14, 2013
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CSS3 Layouts for the Multi-screen World
FOWD London, 14th May 2013
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Transcript
#FOWD LDN ’13
@stopsatgreen Peter Gasston rehabstudio
CSS3: Layouts for the Multi-screen World
1. The web has changed 2. Our tools are outdated
What is CSS3 doing about it?
1. The web has changed
None
12 years ago…
By Anna Debenham: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anna_debenham/8190771122/
None
2. 320x480 4. 768x1024 2106
http://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/insights/featured/new-multi-screen-world-insight/
User-centric design, but device-centric development
Responsive Web Design
Future of Web Design = Knowing How to Code
Carpenter != Dendrologist
@media screen {…} @media screen and (min-width: 800px) {…} @media
(orientation: portrait) {…} Media Queries
width / device-width height / device-height orientation aspect-ratio / device-aspect-ratio
Media Queries
@media (min-resolution: 2dppx) {} Media Queries
Categories are obsolete. Parameters are the future.
script pointer hover luminosity Future* Media Queries * Possibly
@media (orientation: portrait) { … @media (max-width: 48em) { …
} } Conditional Rules
<meta name="viewport" content="width=500, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=2"> Device Adaptation
Device Adaptation @viewport { initial-scale: 1; maximum-scale: 2; width: 500px;
}
Device Adaptation @viewport { width: device-width; } @media (max-device-width: 420px)
{ @viewport { width: 500px; } }
CSS3 has your back!
2. Our tools are outdated
None
None
None
None
<table> float: left HTML & CSS1
position: absolute display: inline-block display: table CSS2
B A C B C A B C A The
Three Stages of RWD
A product of its limitations (adjacent possible?)
New layout methods:
Inspired by 1000 years of printing…
… but purely digital.
None
Multi-columns article { column-count: 3; } article { column-width: 20em;
}
None
None
A B .b { flow-from: 'foo'; } foo Regions .a
{ flow-into: 'foo'; }
B C D .b, .c, .d { flow-from: 'foo'; }
foo Regions
Regions http://blogs.adobe.com/webplatform/2013/04/08/adaptive-web-app-ui-with-css-regions/
Flexbox .parent { display: flex; } .child { width: 30%;
} .child { flex: 1; }
Flexbox A B .a { flex: 2; } .b {
flex: 1; } A B .parent { flex-direction: column; } .a { flex: 2; } .b { flex: 1; }
Flexbox .parent { flex-direction: column; } .a { order: 2;
} .b { order: 1; } A B B C A
“Media queries can be used to do more than patch
broken layouts: with proper planning, we can begin to choreograph content proportional to screen size, serving the best possible experience at any width.” http://trentwalton.com/2011/07/14/content-choreography/
None
Grid Layout .parent { display: grid; grid-definition-columns: 1fr 1fr 2fr;
} .parent { grid-definition-columns: 1fr 1fr 2fr; grid-definition-rows: 10em auto 40px; }
Grid Layout A B .child { grid-column: 2; grid-row: 2;
} .a { grid-column: 2 / 4; } .b { grid-row: 1 span 3; }
None
.child { position: absolute; } Exclusions wrap-flow: both;
None
.child { shape-outside: circle(50%,50%, 400px); } Shaped Exclusions
None
.child { shape-inside: circle(50%,50%,400px); } Shaped Exclusions
CSS3 has your back!
… and much more to come.
With great power comes blah blah blah you know this
by now.
In conclusion
1. The web is everywhere
2. Web design is constrained by the tools we have
3. Better tools are on the way
4. Start to think how you can make beautiful sites
that work everywhere
Some of the CSS properties shown in this talk are
experimental and subject to change. Check http://caniuse.com and http://html5please.com for latest implementation status. Peter Gasston @stopsatgreen