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  • Sitepoint Article: 960 Grid Has Got to Go

    Posted 14 years 3 months ago
    • I read with interest the Sitepoint article 960 Grid Has Got to Go in which Sitepoint claims that "responsive layouts will be one of the big web development trends of 2011."

      I tend to agree with Sitepoint. Many of our customers are more and more concerned with how their web pages display on slate and mobile devices, as well as on smaller laptops that are commonly issued by larger companies to their employees.

      Is there any plan in the works to take RocketTheme's Gantry foundation and enable it to evolve to a responsive layout? Also, it would be very cool if there were controls for which content could be conditionally included based on he browser viewport size. These could include controls for entire module positions as well as controls for content within a module position or article.
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    Re: Sitepoint Article: 960 Grid Has Got to Go

    Posted 14 years 3 months ago
    • The 960px used in gantry-templates doesn't mean that gantry can't cant use other layouts.
      In fact it's just one possible layout in gantry. Gantry it self is a lot deaper ... more of an extra layer in Joomla. (look into layouts in html folder of the gantry templates)

      But you must see that 960 is still the standard.
      Also Gantry can deliver different templates to different devices.
      The module-mapping for the iphone is already a great innovation imho.
      You can explore a more simple way to switch layouts here:
      www.gantry-framework.org/documentation/j...ie6-unsupported-page

      Most of the modules you all use are built to use a fixed width.
      Also RT-devs have to deal with the old browsers: ie7 and esp. ie8 will be around for a long time.

      But I agree there is a lot of interesting stuff going on. Just as an example.
      lessframework.com/

      I don't know if RT is actually working on something.
      But you can be sure that RT will always reflect the evolution of webdesign.
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