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David Herron
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David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
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Learning the mobile-first paradigm theory

Mobile devices have a smaller screen, are generally touch-oriented, and have different user experience expectations than a desktop computer.

To accommodate smaller screens, we use responsive web design techniques. This means designing the application to accommodate the screen size and ensuring websites provide optimal viewing and interaction across a wide range of devices. Techniques include changing font sizes, rearranging elements on the screen, using collapsible elements that open when touched, and resizing images or videos to fit available space. This is called responsive because the application responds to device characteristics by making these changes.

By mobile-first, we mean that you design the application to work well on a mobile device first, and then move on to devices with larger screens. It's about prioritizing mobile devices first.

The primary technique is using media queries in stylesheets to detect device characteristics....

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David Herron

David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
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