RESS Essentials

If you're involved in Responsive Web Design, then you'll find this book on the fundamental features and techniques of RESS a very useful tool. It's the ideal introduction to a revolutionary new methodology.

Key Features

• Easy-to-follow tutorials on implementing RESS application patterns
• Information flow diagrams which will help you understand various RESS architectures with ease
• Perform browser feature detection and store this information on server side

Book Description

What you will learn

• Write your own code to detect user screen size and store this information on server side
• Install and integrate the WURFL device detection library with your application‚Äìboth cloud and standalone versions
• Apply RWD principles to write HTML and CSS
• Use HTML5 Boilerplate and its jQuery components
• Integrate other CSS libraries with responsive grids using Gridpack
• Create a RESS application based on RESTful API with the PHP SLIM framework
• Develop jQuery plugins to handle web page components in responsive ways
• Implement your own responsive images application

Who this book is for

This book is aimed primarily at web developers interested in writing applications that leverage both client- and server-side code to optimise content for various devices.