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Re: Change UI layout

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On 07/02/2014 02:39 AM, Andrew Poulos wrote:
> I have a design that displays well on a desktop monitor. When the design
> is viewed on a "small" screen such as a mobile phone the layout fails in
> that its unreadable (you need to zoom in and scroll about to read the
> content).
>
> My idea for a solution is to dynamically strip the
> nice-to-have/non-essential elements and so give more room to the "real"
> content. Working under the assumption that accurately deciding if a
> screen is small will be problematic I'm thinking that the way forward is
> to put a checkbox on the home page with a checkbox that reads "Mobile".
>
> If the user checks the box the nice-to have elements are removed.
>
> Is this appropriate?

As Stefan Ram pointed out, it seems that "Responsive Design" is the way 
to go nowadays, as more and more people are using smartphones everyday. 
But, depending on the site / web application's audience, responsive and 
adaptive design won't suffice. I think that's why some sites are using 
server-side combined with client-side JavaScript to detect specific devices.

I've found out some sites using WURFL.js and Modernizer together.


-- 
Joao Rodrigues

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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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