We can create columns that stack on their own as individual columns go below a certain minimum size: Using clamp we can provide min/max values for font sizes: The following 3 column layout collapses to 1 column when the container (or the viewport) is <480px wide: If we look at what intrinsic tools we have available, notably things like CSS grid autofit and minmax as well as clamp based algorithms, we can get quite far. Even in cases where media queries would work as intended, it might add undue complexity for basic behaviors that feel like they should be built in: Media queries ( #19909) that look only at the viewport width will fail to provide good fallback views for patterns inserted into columns. To distill that a bit, a lavish pattern featuring multiple columns and complex layouts might look great if inserted in a sufficiently wide theme, but it might fall apart if inserted in contexts or layouts that are narrow. Whenever possible, patterns should just work and accommodate themselves.
Typography tools need to become more fluid and internally support algorithmic clamping.(Container queries might help expand this further in the future.) For this to work well, container blocks need to absorb more layout controls. Each block area should be intrinsically responsive allowing blocks to compose together, wrap, stack, and organize themselves to fit the different spaces and screens.The block model is a good case to apply some intrinsic design principles, since a block can occupy a place in many different layouts and containers, for which prescriptive media queries that don’t take context into account are inflexible.This needs to be solved in a way that doesn’t disproportionally increase interface complexity. One of the biggest points of friction for pattern and theme builders are the lack of responsive tools available at a block level.Check it out.In the Preliminary Road to 5.9 post, intrinsic web design principles are outlined as a potential path forward for providing basic responsive defaults to blocks: At larger screen sizes more of this content is displayed on-screen until at the largest breakpoint all the content is on-screen. This off canvas content slides into view when the user taps a navigation element to reveal it. The concept of “Off Canvas” layouts is that some key content like navigation or additional but non-critical content lies off-screen to the left or right side of the main content area and are only a click away. The categories Luke uses to group the layout patterns he’s cataloged include: “Multi-Device Layouts” gets a lot closer to a descriptive title for the technique, given that the reason to use responsive web design is to have one set of HTML for a web page and having the website adapt for optimal use on different display devices ranging from large monitors to laptop computers to tablets and iPads to smart phones and other mobile devices. The phrase “Responsive Web Design” means something to some of us working in the web design and development field, but isn’t very descriptive and probably means nothing to website owners unless they happen to follow the latest web design techniques through the best web design blogs or conferences. I appreciate the shift in terminology suggested by the article’s title as well.
The article is wonderfully helpful in getting one’s head around various approaches to Responsive Websites, especially because it includes not just a description and sketch of each design pattern, but also includes multiple links to live websites demonstrating each layout pattern. Luke Wroblewski’s article titled “Multi-Device Layout Patterns” catalogs emerging layout patterns. As more web designers and web developers are creating websites using Responsive Web Design techniques, design patterns are starting to emerge.
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