009: With Ethan Marcotte

March 10th, 2012     01:06:09

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This week we were joined by Ethan Marcotte, our chauffeur into the brave new world of responsive web design. We’ve been getting a good amount of questions about RWD, so we’ve saved the best ones up for a special espisode from the man himself. We talk about (roughly in order):

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• (4:20) – StyleDocco
• (5:50) – Adobe Shadow
• (7:40) – SenchaTouch 2
• (8:15) – The Non-Breaking Space Show Crossover
• (8:50) – The Industry Podcast

Q & A

• (12:20) – What is responsive design?
• (15:43) – When shouldn’t you use responsive design?
• (24:26) – Using image sprites with responsive design?
• (31:30) – Scaling images in responsive design
• (37:27) – Responsive display advertising
• (44:30) – Making the jQuery plugin DataTables responsive
• Grid systems to help the transition into responsive design
• (49:55) – Is hiding inline images good enough to prevent them from loading?
• (53:40) – Embedded tweets in responsive design
• (56:50) – Masonry style layouts

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Note: Dear Audiophiles, sorry about the choppy recording. Will work on it.