Responsive Design Patterns
I've done a lot of front end development work but I always wonder about how responsive design will work out. It's not that I think responsive design is no good, it's just that high end web design firms are obsessive about having everything on the page look exactly correct. With a fixed width design, it's possible to get pixel perfect results.What happens when a $5000 design is stretched out and looks different? Of course it's possible to code things that way, but my question lies with whether or not the bosses of these design firms are going to look at it and say "That looks fine, lets deliver it", or "That looks ugly, lets fixed-width it and design a completely different version for tablet". After all, you can't control what resolution your client will view your work in, and when they are paying that much money you want it to display the "best" way (ie. the same way it looked in Photoshop).It kind of seems that in the very short term, the money flowing around front end design will be stuck in the past (IE7 support, no responsive design, distrust of css3 fonts, etc.) while the web in general will be moving in another direction.