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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