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is responsive web design dying?
(Feb 23 2018 at 03:02am)Some time in 2015 I share a post here on how I feel responsive design is overrated as a solution to the trend of mobile first . Because about 60% of people that use the web today access it from a smartphone, and big players like Google recommend that website masters should take their mobile site seriously.
Then responsive CSS came with a quick fix that lets you build a website that will look good on about any device (PC or Mobile). Many loved this idea as it is quick and mostly rely on making a few adjustments to your CSS code. It is mainly based on the CSS @media query.
Fast-forward to 2018, Big players like Google are now backing other techs (Progressive WebApp - PWS, Accelerated Mobile Page - AMP). These techs only see responsive CSS as a step in the bigger process of building a mobile first WebApp. And both require one to rewrite a dedicated version of ones website/app putting mobile in mind.
In my conclusion, the new techs from Google might not support the philosophy of web designers that preach rendering same design with just a few CSS mod as a mobile version of their site. I preached the advantage of writing a specific code for mobile version in 2015 and got bashed
is Google preaching the same gospel with their AMP now? If yes, We can agree that responsive design in some context is dying. Peace.
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Last edited 23 Feb 2018