Adactio: Journal—Content First
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In which I repeatedly hammer home the point that it’s all about the content.
Andy recently published 320 and up, a fork of Mobile Boilerplate that inverts his previous boilerplate media queries i.e. now it starts with the small-screen styles and layers on the styles for larger widths, rather than beginning with larger-width styles and nullifying them for smaller screens. This is definitely the best way to apply width-specific styles, be it with media queries or with JavaScript. But I get a little nervous when I see pixel values that correspond to specific device widths: 320 pixels, 480 pixels, etc.—it’s certainly an improvement on relying on one mythical width like…
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