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I really hate doing all the tweaks for tablet and mobile on websites. No matter how hard one tries to design for mobile first and make the transitions as seamless as possible, there are always some “fiddly bits” that won’t behave. And so many devices with all their viewport width variations. Also, there’s the matter of people resizing a desktop browser to any width that might not be covered by the breakpoint ranges that specifically. One could write a hundred breakpoints and still not account for it all on some designs. It’s exhausting.

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    You already said what your problem is, you're thinking in terms of a fixed canvas with breakpoints. Leave that outdated mentality in 2010 where it belongs. Responsive UI is about making design flow along the content, not about putting design and content into pixel-perfect boxes.
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    @hitko I know that. But the designers don’t. Everything is Photoshop with them and not caring or thinking about the consequences of that cutting edge doodad they want and what it should do (or even if it can work) on mobile devices that don’t have hover state and other trappings of desktop sites.
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