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As expected, the European Parliament has thrown its weight behind the European Commission’s proposed Consumer Rights Directive (COM(2008)0614)
This means that by the end of 2013, it will probably become law in the member states and will apply to businesses offering goods or services to consumers online - in other words, distance selling. The Directive is broad, and covers everything from extra fees for credit card payments to the cost of returning unwanted goods (called the right of withdrawal). E-commerce website owners based in the EU will need to start taking action when the final version is published in their countries and well before it gets implemented into their national law.
Mobile and smartphones are making responsive web design essential Every recent survey suggests that in about three years, more people will use mobile than desktop computers to access the web.
That would be fine if smartphones, tablets and normal computer screens all displayed web content nicely, but the vast majority of pages don't display correctly on all mobile devices. Layouts that look good on a large screen often break when you look at them on a smartphone. Images and navigation menus disappear off the edge of the page, columns lose their alignment and text shrinks to unreadable sizes.