Responsive Web Design: Fluid Grids: Introduction and HTML

[sfacets]

...a bit disappointing, The title is misleading, kept on waiting for the guy to get to the responsive grid part. Oh well, 20 minutes of my life gone.

[frederikcreemers]

I like your video, but why not use the HTML header tag instead of div id='header' ?

[iainmacdonaldTV]

@frederikcreemers It doesn't really matter. Even if it has HTML5 doctype the header can be a div with the id of header. The tools you use, wether it's divs or semantic HTML5 tags really don't matter, just so long as it shows the page hierarchy. ;-)

[frederikcreemers]

@iainmacdonaldTV For normal users, it doesn't matter indeed, but for search engines it might. Content inside the header of the page usually shows a great deal of importance on what the page is all about. Also, but this doesn't apply to the header element as much, sceen readers could really use the new semantic elements in HTML5.

[frederikcreemers]

@frederikcreemers I'm visually impaired myself, but I'm lucky enough to be ale to use the zoom functionality, without needing text to speech functions, but I have some blind friends who can tel me how hard it is to navigate a page, when designers use CSS to make a simple p tag look like a H1 or H2. Imagine you have to listen to the entire document to hear the content you're looking for, that's not a nice user experience, is it?

[frederikcreemers]

@frederikcreemers screenreaders now already include the possibility to jump to headers inside a document. If more sites use the nav element, screenreaders could even have functionality to directly sskip to the navigation, or to keep a list of all navigation elements contained in the section the user is currently listening to.

[Bossiiiii]

nice wig you have