Comments on: CSS3 Media Queries? Download Answers

By: Paul Sandwell

Paul Sandwell — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:53:28 +0000

Awesome post, you delivered exactly what I was looking for. I was quite surprised that the devices downloaded all the different stylesheets no matter what @media parameters you set.

By: Media Query & Asset Downloading Tests | TimKadlec.com

Media Query & Asset Downloading Tests | TimKadlec.com — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:37:59 +0000

[...] images being downloaded even when they aren’t being used. A few people—including Jason Grigsby, Greg Rewis and Aaron Mentele—have done some excellent testing about how images are downloaded when media [...]

By: zomigi.com » Essential considerations for crafting quality media queries

zomigi.com » Essential considerations for crafting quality media queries — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:56:07 +0000

[...] size, and those alternate styles would suddenly need to be called into action. On the other hand, Greg Rewis found that even if you create a sheet that it seems like a device could never possibly use, such as a [...]

By: Maxim Malcov

Maxim Malcov — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 10:19:23 +0000

Great post.It will really help in future.Thank you very much you are thr best

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:21:03 +0000

I would love to test some Symbian devices, but sadly, I don’t happen to have any. I would, however, expect that the results would be similar, ie, that they too would download all the stylesheets, but not necessarily the actual images. If I can get my hands on a Symbian device to test, I will definitely update the post.

By: Stedi

Stedi — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 08:13:49 +0000

Great article, but still quite limited due to it’s focus in mobile browsers used in the US. You forget Symbian phones completely. Yes, I know, the current browser in Symbian is really old and not on par with iOS and Android browsers, and many Symbians use Opera Mini or Opera Mobile.
But still Symbian phones are no.1 worldwide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone and it would have been nice to see the results in Symbian’s OSS browser too. Web developers like me here in Europe are eagerly waiting for Nokia’s new mobile browser which should be released in Q1 2011.
Seasons greetings from the land of the Santa Claus.

By: Lyle Jacobson

Lyle Jacobson — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:19:35 +0000

Great post, I really need to learn more about mobile device compatability and how it effects good web design and development.

By: Joe Marini

Joe Marini — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:57:55 +0000

We have a post on this on the IEMobile Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/iemobile/archive/2010/12/08/targeting-mobile-optimized-css-at-windows-phone-7.aspx

I’ll see what I can do about the phone. It’s not, you know, like you’re the 18 millionth person to ask or anything.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:52:17 +0000

Joe, thanks for that info – especially the part about the CC’s getting evaluated prior to download. As to the phone, screw the emulator – give me a phone! :-P

By: Joe Marini

Joe Marini — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:27:35 +0000

IE for Windows Phone currently requires Conditional Comments, but the next version will support both IECC and Media Queries.

Conditional Comments are actually a pretty good solution since they are evaluated BEFORE the style sheet gets downloaded. You can also use them to conditionally include content like script tags and other parts of the page, not just style sheets.

And you don’t need a phone to test – the developer tools with the Emulator are free :-)