Responsive web design needs to be done really cautiously. Jon Hicks site, while beautiful, is not the best example. It sends large images, no matter what resolution the site is being viewed at. The page he links to is 4.8MB for example! Nobody wants to download that on a phone.
Also, for all practical purposes, everybody on Android does use Webkit. The real takeaway to his point there is that if you're doing UA sniffing, you need to keep your site up to date.
> for all practical purposes, everybody on Android does use Webkit.
That might change when Firefox Mobile comes out. I've been using the beta http://www.mozilla.com/m/beta and it's really nice. Also, Opera 10.1 beta for Android is out, and although I haven't tried it, I'm sure it will be popular as well.
Good point. I toned down the recommendations a bit, and added a link to an article by PPK explaining how to avoid delivering all your high-res images to low-res devices. (A lot has been written about this lately, and I didn't want want to repeat too much of what's already been said.)
> Jon Hicks site, while beautiful, is not the best example.
It would be much improved if he dropped the trendy downloadable fonts. They look like some low-res, pre-antialiasing, random-pixel-esque monsters from the Windows 3 days in every browser here: a very different monster in each case, but all just as nasty. I find it rather telling that for all the hype about the legal font embedding services a few months ago, just about the only people who are actually using them seem to be web designers on their own sites, and most of those sites are obviously worse-looking now than before. Meanwhile, getting back to the topic at hand, I get 1GB of download capacity in my mobile phone plan and then things get expensive, so I do not appreciate sites that trigger large additional downloads without actually making the site any better!
Responsive web design needs to be done really cautiously. Jon Hicks site, while beautiful, is not the best example. It sends large images, no matter what resolution the site is being viewed at. The page he links to is 4.8MB for example! Nobody wants to download that on a phone.
Also, for all practical purposes, everybody on Android does use Webkit. The real takeaway to his point there is that if you're doing UA sniffing, you need to keep your site up to date.