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Re: determining screen resolution over the web

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From Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject Re: determining screen resolution over the web
Date Thu, 31 Jul 2014 16:02:24 -0700
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On 7/31/2014 15:33, Roedy Green wrote:
> If somebody sends you an HTTP request, how do you find out his screen
> resolution to send back an reasonably sized HTML response?
>
> <link href="../mindprodsmall.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"
> media="handheld">
> <link href="../mindprodbig.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"
> media="screen">
>
> lets the same content be viewed different ways, but it would seem you
> also want to prune the content for small screens.
>

Do all your CSS in percentages rather than pixels or ems.

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Knute Johnson

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determining screen resolution over the web Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-31 15:33 -0700
  Re: determining screen resolution over the web Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-31 16:02 -0700
    Re: determining screen resolution over the web Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-31 16:15 -0700
      Re: determining screen resolution over the web Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-07-31 16:40 -0700
        Re: determining screen resolution over the web Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2014-08-01 09:41 -0500
          Re: determining screen resolution over the web Knute Johnson <eternal@knutejohnson.com> - 2014-08-01 08:12 -0700
        Re: determining screen resolution over the web Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2014-08-01 11:01 -0700
        Re: determining screen resolution over the web Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-08-01 16:07 -0400
  Re: determining screen resolution over the web Arne VajhĂžj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-07-31 22:22 -0400
  Re: determining screen resolution over the web Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2014-08-04 15:20 +0300

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