Re: Change UI layout

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Change UI layout
Date	2014-07-02 15:58 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> On 2/07/2014 6:05 PM, danca wrote:
>> My Android smartphone declares an horizontal resolution of 940 pixels,
>> but obviously a standard page is unreadable on the tiny screen, so I
>> actually detect the user agent and automatically redirect the mobile
>> devices to a dedicated page, instead of rely on the screen resolution.

Bad idea.

>> An explicit button seems to be the rational choice, however. The iPad is
>> identified as a mobile device but the screen is wide enough to display
>> standard pages.
> 
> I just tested my 3 year old android phone running Chrome and innerWidth
> returns 980 with the phone in landscape mode so I'm leaning towards a
> button as well.

There *are* 980px in landscape mode.  Both "detecting" the user agent and 
redirecting, and a button, are wrong, user-unfriendly approaches.  Instead, 
the layout must be so that it does not force zoom-out, i.e. it must not be 
too wide.

The relevance of this thread to this newsgroup approaches 0.  Please find a 
newsgroup where it is on-topic.

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Change UI layout Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-02 15:39 +1000
  Re: Change UI layout danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2014-07-02 10:05 +0200
    Re: Change UI layout Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-02 23:27 +1000
      Re: Change UI layout Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-02 15:58 +0200
        Re: Change UI layout Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-03 11:36 +1000
          Re: Change UI layout Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2014-07-03 18:20 +1000
            Re: Change UI layout Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-03 11:42 +0200
          Re: Change UI layout Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-03 10:38 +0200
    Re: Change UI layout Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-07-03 21:51 +0100
      Re: Change UI layout danca <cyberdanny@tiscalinet.it> - 2014-07-04 15:09 +0200
      Re: Change UI layout Dr J R Stockton <reply1400@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2014-07-05 16:10 +0100
  Re: Change UI layout Joao Rodrigues <groups_jr-1@yahoo.com> - 2014-07-05 12:58 -0300
    Re: Change UI layout Christoph Michael Becker <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2014-07-05 19:31 +0200
      Re: Change UI layout Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-07-06 23:34 +0200

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