paulirish/html5-boilerplate — Issue #816: Revert mobile-first media queries and remove respond.js
Author: paulirish
Created: 2011-10-18 02:22:51+00:00
State: open

IE6-8 require respond.js to act as a polyfill because H5BP uses mobile-first media queries.

I'm not convinced mobile-first media queries are best.

1. Clearly they have this extra cost for IE baked in.
1. Secondly, it's a little awkward, as a developer, to write your styles mobile first.

What mobile browsers (in use, currently) do not support media queries? Moreover, of the ones who don't, are there browsers that don't scale the content to somehow adapt to the small screen size?

I don't know enough of the Blackberry/Nokia product line to know what's up on this front. But I have a feeling the mobile-first MQ setup is a lot of work. And the payoff is not worth the effort.