2010 was quite a year:
And exactly three weeks after Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 For Web Designers was first published, “Responsive Web Design” went live in A List Apart.
Nothing’s been quite the same since.
I remember being at that An Event Apart in Seattle where Ethan first unveiled the phrase and marvelling at how well everything just clicked into place, perfectly capturing the zeitgeist. I was in. 100%.
Trys describes exactly the situation where you really do need to use the Shadow DOM in a web component—as opposed to just sticking to HTML web components—, and that’s when the component is going to be distributed and you have no idea where:
This component needed to be incredibly portable, looking great on any third-party website, in any position, at any viewport, with any amount of content. It had to be a “hyper-responsive” component.
Another terrific interactive tutorial from Ahmad, this time on container queries.
Scott gives a thorough step-by-step walkthrough of building an HTML web component, in this case for responsive video:
In this post, I’m going to talk briefly about responsive video, but most of the post will be about using HTML web components to extend native video behavior in very helpful ways. But even if you’re not particularly interested in video development, stick around as I’ll demonstrate how to build an HTML Web Component to progressively enhance anything you need.
Michelle has written a detailed practical guide to container queries here.
Now, this is how you design a web component. It’s a progressive enhancement.
Wrap your existing table element inside table-saw and it will behave responsively. If anything goes wrong with the JavaScript, the fallback is the regular table that’s already in your markup.
I just wish the installation didn’t assume that you’re using npm …it’s not really “zero dependency” if it depends on that.
Offline could be the new normal.
Don’t let the name distract you—progressive web apps are for everyone.
Changing defaults in browsers …someday.
A CSS fix for sluggish tap responses on mobile.
Hats off to Graham.