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Hand-drawn green snake with a red tongue shown in three browser windows. A wide window holds a very long, stretched-out snake. Caption: "if a snake was responsive would it be" "like this" "or" "like this?" Below, a tall narrow window holds an S-curved snake and a small window holds a short snake.

If a Snake Was Responsive Web Design

A snake in browser windows asks whether responsive design would stretch it, coil it, or shrink it. A joke for anyone who went from Geocities to CSS media queries.

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Hand-drawn green snake with a red tongue shown in three browser windows. A wide window holds a very long, stretched-out snake. Caption: "if a snake was responsive would it be" "like this" "or" "like this?" Below, a tall narrow window holds an S-curved snake and a small window holds a short snake.

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