The Essentials of Responsive Web Design
By the end of this first chapter, we will have covered everything needed to author a fully responsive web page.
You might be wondering, why the other 10 chapters? By the end of this chapter, that should be apparent too.
When the first edition of this book came out in 2012, responsive web design was a new and exciting possibility to address the needs of the ever-growing list of devices that could access the internet. In 2020 it's simply the de facto standard. Unless you have a good reason, if you're building a website or web application and it isn't responsive, you're probably doing it wrong!
Perhaps you're reading this because you need to understand what makes a responsive web design, and get a better handle on the capabilities of HTML and CSS? Or perhaps you're already building websites responsively and need a steer on features and techniques you may have missed along the way...
