User talk:Fetchcomms

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Fetchcomms 20:33, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Responsive Web design

Thought you might find this interesting: <http://www.cloudfour.com/css-media-query-for-mobile-is-fools-gold/>.

I was thinking that responsive Web design might be nice for pages such as User:Monomium/Main Page Sandbox, but now I'm not so sure. --MZMcBride 01:12, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

A well-rounded solution will likely have to include JavaScript as well as media queries, though I understand the author's viewpoint in that article. But device support has increased since 2010, as has the variety of device sizes, and I think media queries might work well for sites as simple as this one—MediaWiki-generated pages are consistent, at least, so there shouldn't be too much unpredictable elements to deal with. I've looked at projects like the new Boston Globe design, which has worked charmingly but is a bit more complex, and I'm still trying to figure out whether Vector was based on an existing grid template or just from scratch. I probably should work on re-gridding the design a bit.
Monomium's changes are pretty readable on an iPad, although the captions have got to go and I'm still wondering whether adding Google Web Fonts code for consistency on Macs (most don't have Franklin Gothic Medium, it seems) is worth the slight speed trade off. I think it is, but IDK if there's a policy for adding those sorts of things.
Still working on that benefactors page, too, just a little busy. Any feedback from the foundation, though?
Fetchcomms 02:29, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
You can't load code from remote sources. That gives away browser info, causes load issues, etc. Not sure what Google Web Fonts code requires, so I can't really say much more than that right now. It'd also have to presumably be under a free license, I guess?
More importantly, re: feedback, I think everyone liked the Thank You redesign. They certainly implemented it quickly. And some of the code you brought in was used recently at Template:SOPABlogShare. So you can see how easy it is to influence things around here. :-)
I think communications got buried with everyone else during this SOPA thing. That's winding down now. Ping Jay on Monday via e-mail? Or you can probably just e-mail him now. I'm not really sure what next steps are here. There's a proposed redesign that needs tweaks/adjustments, presumably with Jay's input? Is that where we are, roughly? --MZMcBride 03:42, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, pity then - all the fonts there are freely licensed, too. (It's done via javascript or CSS @import, sadly.)
Yeah, I'll wait a couple of days until SOPA buzz dies down and see what we have and how much still needs to be done. You're probably correct about where we're at now, though.
Fetchcomms 04:53, 20 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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