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The article that first described what came to be known as responsive design was published on ALA by Marc van den Dobbelsteen in 2006:

https://alistapart.com/article/switchymclayout/




Cool find! I had not seen that before. But I still think the one I linked to is the canonical origin since it actually named it and described the method we ended up using (media queries) but this article definitely seems like an important precursor as well - and it strengthens my point of how important ALA was that this post was also posted to ALA.




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