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2. The Mobile Web > Mobile First
Mobile First
First, let’s get our priorities straight. Prioritizing mobile design and development over the desktop was once laughable. In just a few years, the idea of “mobile first” has taken over, giving web developers a breath of fresh air in terms of HTML5-based APIs toward hardware access on mobile devices.
Apart from the obvious, here are multiple reasons for thinking mobile first:
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Developing sites for constrained devices and resolutions will force you to create more fluid and flexible content.
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Device features, such as accelerometer and geolocation hardware, present new business opportunities with technologies like Augmented Reality.
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Overall, mobile first requires you to think in a code-quality mindset. Today, it’s required for developers to worry about things like battery life when doing hardware-accelerated animations with CSS. This quality of development not only brings better performing apps, but it also encourages you to focus on cleaner semantics.
