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Re: Change UI layout

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On 2/07/2014 11:58 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 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

Actually I should've said 980px in portrait mode.

> 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.

Ok. Google found some browser sniffing that was laughing hundreds, if 
not thousands, of characters long.

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

Not really. I'm now leaning towards a solution that uses HTML, CSS and 
checking window.matchMedia onload to change the layout appropriately.

Andrew Poulos

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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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