{"id":2032,"date":"2011-03-30T00:27:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=2032"},"modified":"2011-03-30T00:27:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:27:51","slug":"in-defense-of-irresponsive-web-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/in-defense-of-irresponsive-web-design\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Irresponsive Web Design."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first-letter\">I<\/span>&#8217;ve been meaning to write a post deriding the stampede to embrace responsive web design since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/responsive-web-design\/\">the euonymous A List Apart article<\/a> from the talented Mr. Ethan Marcotte last year. Despite the title of <em>this<\/em> post, it is not <em>the<\/em> post I hoped to eventually write, which, is tentatively titled &#8220;Practical Limitations of Responsive Web Design.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However. Recently, the two most vocal proponents\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/unstoppablerobotninja.com\/entry\/toffee-nosed\/\">the aforementioned Marcotte<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/adactio.com\/journal\/4443\/\">the equally talented Mr. Jeremy Keith<\/a>\u2014have clarified the notion of responsive web design to remove any ambiguity about what it does <em>not <\/em>attempt to do. Specifically, responsive web design enables layouts capable of adapting to the <em>viewport<\/em> but offers precious little in the way of addressing issues of <em>context<\/em> and <em>bandwidth<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And, moreover, they emphatically state that while responsive web design is a tool that often makes sense, that does not mean it is the <em>only<\/em> solution nor always the <em>best<\/em> solution. Marcotte:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Because maybe <em>your<\/em> site is better served by a separate mobile  site than by a responsive approach. Or maybe the reverse is true: maybe a  responsive approach is more appropriate. The moral here is that you  should tailor the approach to the project, and put the polemic aside.  Because nobody knows your project, your <em>audience<\/em>, better than you do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll write that post someday, the one that, channeling my inner Merlin, talks about solving the right web design problem at the right web design level. Until then, it&#8217;s comforting to see those with the largest soapboxes taking pains to disassociate responsive web design from magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a post deriding the stampede to embrace responsive web design since the euonymous A List Apart article from the talented Mr. Ethan Marcotte last year. Despite the title of this post, it is not the post I hoped to eventually write, which, is tentatively titled &#8220;Practical Limitations of Responsive Web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}