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November 28, 2011 This article shows examples of how to embed video and other iframes in a responsive web design and has examples with YouTube, Vimeo and Slideshare. I found a neat little CSS trick on the A List Apart article “ Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video ” and I did some experimenting with it.
Posted by Scott on 12/14/2010
Brian Casel is a web designer and co-host of Freelance Jam , the live web show for independent professionals who build the web.
Feb 09 2010 Last year, more than 63 million people in the United States accessed the Internet from a mobile device. It’s forecast that by 2013 there will be more than 1.7 billion mobile Internet users worldwide.
While I was coding the Elemin Theme (a responsive WordPress theme that I recently designed), one of the challenges that I faced was to make the embedded videos elastic.
Screen resolution nowsaday ranges from 320px (iPhone) to 2560px (large monitor) or even higher. Users no longer just browse the web with desktop computers. Users now use mobile phones, small notebooks, tablet devices such as iPad or Playbook to access the web. So the traditional fixed width design doesn't work any more. Web design needs to be adaptive. The layout needs to be automatically adjusted to fit all display resolution and devices.
As introduced/coined by Ethan Marcotte in both his article " Responsive Web Design " as well as his best-selling book , one needs three elements to make a site responsive: A flexible/fluid grid Responsive images Media queries There are plenty of other great articles that cover motives , concepts , and techniques regarding responsive web design, so we'll keep the focus of this article on some top tools that will help you become responsibly responsive. Advertisement <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/fut.gb.net/features;kw=CSS;kw=CSS3;kw=Design;kw=JavaScript;kw=Responsive web design;kw=Tools;tile=1;sz=300x250;ord=2013032938?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/fut.gb.net/features;kw=CSS;kw=CSS3;kw=Design;kw=JavaScript;kw=Responsive web design;kw=Tools;tile=1;sz=300x250;pos=2;ord=2013032938?"
33em 16em With over 4 billion mobile devices in use around the world, mobile browsing is rising fast . We can no longer assume that our sites will be viewed on a desktop monitor with an average resolution. Perhaps we never could.
The English architect Christopher Wren once quipped that his chosen field “aims for Eternity,” and there’s something appealing about that formula: Unlike the web, which often feels like aiming for next week, architecture is a discipline very much defined by its permanence. A building’s foundation defines its footprint, which defines its frame, which shapes the facade. Each phase of the architectural process is more immutable, more unchanging than the last.