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Old 07-18-2013, 10:30 PM
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Default Re: X-Cart Mobile module released

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Originally Posted by espresso
Too bad, I tried a couple ($190.00), and let me tell you, they are very heavy on resources and yes, very responsive, that it is hard to keep your eyes focused on products (jumping around on the screen) you want to buy.

Actually a real responsive template written using html5 and css3 is very light on resources and very fast. html5 and css3 are very widely supported already even in IE, yes IE10, but 9 also has a lot of it. Using html5 and css3 you can get rid of probably 90% of the design images.
The screen jumping will happen if you keep rotating your phone portrait/landscape but otherwise the design stays.

Keep in mind that most XC responsive templates available are build around XC templates which use html4/css2. There is not one XC responsive template I have seen yet that is fully re-written to use html5/css3 and without this you have to rely a lot on js framework to support the responsive design.

Also keep in mind that XC has a huge amount of js and css files and they all load with all XC templates available making the responsive template still somewhat heavy with XC

Why am I saying this - working on a site to be responsive and html5/css3 and actually rewriting XC templates in use from scratch getting rid of all css and js code that is not necessary to load - very light an fast.

An example will be form validation - while XC uses now a lot of js code to do form validation with html5 you don't need all this code - html5 has this built-in...
Images in design - no need - css3 takes care of that, for the most part
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