From A List Apart: The Full Feed –Quantity Queries for CSS:
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Don’t you just hate documentaries that don’t deliver? They have enticing names like In Search of the Giant Squid, and tease you with shots of murky underwater shapes and excited scientists pointing far out to sea. You settle down to watch, eyes narrowed with suspicion, thinking, I better see some squid or I’m writing an angry letter to the network.
Sure enough, 90 minutes of interviews with bored-looking fishermen later, the presenter is forced to conclude, ?No… no, we didn’t find any big squids. But maybe one day [majestic orchestral flourish]. Great. You wanted Finding Nemo and got Not Finding Nemo instead.
I wouldn’t do that to you, friends. This is your guide to creating style breakpoints for quantities of HTML elements, much as you already do with @media queries for viewport dimensions. I’m not pointing at some blurry specification in the distance or a twinkle in an implementer’s eye. We’re going to do this today, with CSS that’s already available…
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When you imagine a programming mentor, certain archetypes might flash into your mind. Maybe you see the wise monk who’s meditated on design patterns for decades. Perhaps it’s the sophisticated keynote speaker with a staggering list of open source contributions. Or it might be that mad scientist polyglot obsessed with a dozen languages you’ve never heard of. But if these characters aren’t on your team when the new hire straight out of school joins up, who’s going to take the reins of training? You, of course…
