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Part 3: Media Query Pitfalls – Watch Out for These!

This blog post is Part 3 of a three-part series in which we explore the concept of responsive web design. In Part 1, we looked at how the evolution of web technologies has collided with consumer demands to create the problem responsive design solves. In Part 2, we showed how media queries enable responsive design. Now we’ll wrap things up by steering you clear of some of the most common pitfalls in a responsive design implementation.

So now you’re thinking, “this is great, look how much easier my life just got!” You knew that wouldn’t last long right?

Read more to learn about the media query pitfalls to watch.

It’s hard to imagine any single item that could please a web developer, an IT infrastructure manager, and an end user all at once. Ice cream or a good joke excepted, anything that makes one of these people happy usually makes at least one of the others miserable.

Tighten security to please the infrastructure maven, and you’ve made extra work for the developer and possibly compromised the user’s experience. Amp up the user experience and you’ve created bandwidth problems for the infrastructure maven and, again, more work for the web developer. (Everything makes more work for the web developer.)

Read more to see how a cloud document viewer makes everybody happy.

Every Friday we publish our "Follow Friday" series which features a few industry news articles we would like to share with you. We are constantly finding interesting, fun, exciting, noteworthy, shocking and industry-changing articles all week long on the internet. Check us out every week to see what catches our eye around the web!

Click the headline of each article to read the full story.

This week's Follow Friday articles include a challenge to the claim that HTML5 has performance problems, a plan from a UK health official to improve healthcare with barcodes, a case that SharePoint is leading the charge to the Cloud, and more.

HTML5's "performance issue" rubbished - .net
by Craig Grannell

Paul Bakaus, W3C AC representative for Zynga and creator of jQuery UI, has rubbished so-called "HTML5 performance issues". In a blog post titled "No, HTML5 does not have a performance issue", Bakaus argued against those within the industry that dismiss the technology because it doesn't run well in older kit and said this "has to stop".

If you enjoyed reading this story, you may like:

• HTML5 vs Flash - What You Need to Know, Part 1
• HTML5 vs Flash - What You Need to Know, Part 2

Read more to see the additional articles that made this week's list.

Accusoft played Vegas last week with the rest of the content management universe (and its close friends) at EMC World, EMC Corporation's annual conference for customers and business partners. Company reps hoped the show would offer a receptive crowd for the Prizm Content Connect document viewer and its ability to solve the twin problems of providing access to unstructured data and enabling secure collaboration -- and they were right.

Read more to see what happened at EMC World 2013.

Part 2: Responsive Design and Media Queries

This blog post is Part 2 of a three-part series in which we explore the concept of responsive web design. In Part 1, we looked at how the evolution of web technologies has collided with consumer demands to create the problem responsive design solves. In this part, we’ll show an example of how media queries enable responsive design, and in Part 3 we’ll wrap things up by steering you clear of some of the most common pitfalls in a responsive design implementation.

Read more to see how media queries enable responsive design.