RESS Essentials -- Table of Contents -- RESS Essentials -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Why Does RWD Change the Internet? -- The RESS idea -- Controversies -- "Separate mobile websites are a good thing" -- "RWD is too difficult" -- "RWD means degrading design" -- RWD benefits -- Freedom for designers -- Invest less, reach out to a larger audience -- Users -- Developers -- RWD evolution and experiments -- Summary -- 2. Sample RWD Setup for Client-Side Development -- Bootstrap custom compilation setup -- Testing the Bootstrap grid system -- Integrating Gridpak -- Implementing responsive design -- Summary -- 3. Server Side Setup - Device Detection Libraries -- The AGPL licensed "OnSite" version of the WURFL library -- The WURFL Cloud version -- YABFDL - Detector -- Summary -- 4. Sample RESS Page -- WURFL plus screen size detection -- Dave Olsen's Detector -- Pure JavaScript screen size test -- Utility functions -- Dave Olsen's Detector plus WURFL -- Summary -- 5. Responsive Images Client- and Server-Side Approaches -- Scaling responsive images is not linear -- Plain CSS and Media queries - a solution with limited browser support -- The tag proposition -- Picturefill that mimics the tag behavior with HTML5 and JS -- Automated creation of responsive images -- Server Side - using one of our example RESS systems -- Summary -- 6. Performance -- Optimizing website towards screen size or bandwidth? -- Optimizing images -- Optimizing image dimensions.

Optimizing image compression -- Optimizing the file format -- Avoiding the use of images -- Reducing the number of images -- Media queries optimization -- Testing -- Summary -- 7. Extending with jQuery -- Twitter Bootstrap components and plugins -- Responsive tables -- Converting a table to an accordion element with jQuery -- Masonry -- Summary -- 8. Employing a REST API for RWD -- REST API -- Slim PHP framework and integrating the RESS module -- Defining API with the Slim framework -- Gateway file and path setup -- Implementing routes -- Adding photos -- What is it good for? -- Summary -- Index.