I designed a Microsoft Access program for work and on my computer the forma look great with no issues. When a couple of my coworkers open the program however, the form looks like the blown up at about 1.5x what is should be. All the widths, font sizes, etc. are the same it just looks zoomed in.
I have checked the monitor screen resolution and we have the same resolution and graphics cards. I also have the resize set to true on the form.
I don't know what else to do and I know this is annoying for my coworkers to work with. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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I have website which is having layout issues on certain devices which I believe I've tracked down to high res displays which also have the display scaling in windows 10 set to 200%. (not 200% in the browser, but in the display settings in the Windows Control Panel)
The problem is I don't have a device which can duplicate the resolution of these devices, which is 2736 x 1824 (it's a MS Surface Pro). Oh yeah, this only happen with Edge...
I know of sites which have VMs which will run different browsers for testing purposes, but I don't know of any which allow you to choose your resolution. Without going out and getting a hold of this specific machine, how else can I debug this issue?
You could create a custom device in the developer console, and simply display it at whatever scale actually fits on your screen. For instance, create a custom device with that particular resolution, then in the developer console on Chrome you can view it scaled down 50% (if your own resolution is 1920x1080) so that the whole thing is visible.
Turned out none of the emulation/scaling options in the dev console would emulate what was really happening. I ended up remoting into the customer's computer so I could do my own debugging on there and resolved the issue.
Seems like Edge v 44 was computing some CSS calc function for a div height incorrectly (off by 1 or 2 pixels) which was making some divs push out and mess up the layout.
The fix was to tweak the CSS so the calculation wasn't required.
I don't often get to work for high resolution displays as most of my clients tend to work with the oldest machines known to man, however I'm currently working on something which will only be displayed on retina display iPads. A graphic has been mocked up of the design they want to the retina resolution (2,048 by 1,536) and I've been building my site based off the dimensions in the graphic. However now I'm actually trying to view it on an iPad, everything is far too big, my '260px header' which I assumed would take up a 6th of the page (ish) is closer to double that.
I don't seem to be able to find anything regarding a workable HTML size for retina displays, only pages talking about how to prep images for retina, what size resolution should I work to when building the HTML?
I believe the best way for you to achieve this is to use CSS where possible and build your site at 1024x768 utilising #2x graphics for retina devices.
A simple guide on utilising these ideas can be found here - http://www.kylejlarson.com/blog/2012/creating-retina-images-for-your-website/
I have encountered the strangest problem I have ever encountered in my web development career, and I just cannot seem to solve it.
I developed a website: www.ktngroup.co.uk a few months back, all worked perfectly upon launch across all devices. Now it would seem as though the site has developed some form of issue limited only to ipad. The strange thing is, I cannot replicate it when using css user agents and screen sizes, which is strange becuase it looks like a css problem.
I cannot describe the issue very well, but it looks as though all the content (Except the header) is pulled off the site on ipad/not displayed. Also, when using adobe edge inspect; I see that none of my css rules are being applied to the elements.
Comparing the desktop version at 1024px vs the ipad landscape is the best way to discover the issue.
UPDATE: When I cancel the iPad fully loading the site (roughly the first two panels) the site functions perfects on those two panels – almost as if its loading something further down that breaks the site?
If anyone has any guidance, I truly could not thank you enough.
For those who may encounter the issue – it's what Jack Pattishall suggested. The iPad didn't seem to respect vh as a unit, and as a result my images were huge.
To fix this I added a media query to handle the handheld tablets with a set pixel width/height.
Hopefully this can be of use to someone
I've been working on a site in a MAMP environment and recently uploaded it onto a hosting server to do cross-browser testing and noticed something weird. The page is literally larger -- not that the container has changed pixel size (Chrome's "Inspect Element" says it is 940px wide in both instances) but if I flip between a tab in the local environment and a tab with the server environment, it is literally visually larger. 940px means a larger screen distance on the server, evidently.
Everything seems to be resized to the same ratio so it hasn't affected the layout at all, so I'm not exactly troubled by this, but I am sort of puzzled. Does anyone know why this is happening and if I should be doing anything in particular about it?
Are you sure you haven't "zoomed in" to the page?
Press cmd+0 to make sure you are at 100% zoom level... (I guess it's just ctrl+0 on Windows)
Another reason could be that a monitor has a different resolution...
That is because of different screen-resolutions, or because you have zoomed the chrome-window.
I am considering a project in which workstations, connected to a central server display various content under the control of a central timeline.
Requirements are that the kiosks could have various compositions of monitor and an extended desktop. This screen space would be use to display images, movies or various mosaics of images and movies.
For example, a machine with 3x3 monitors might be configured to display video in the lowest right four screens, a title on the top three videos and whatnot elsewhere.
I am figuring out how to create the viewer. I think that sticking to web technologies I know well would be good and using JavaScript for the timeline engine sounds easy.
As for codecs and video drivers I think I would stick with Chrome, Css3 and Html5, I think I can require Chrome and Windows 7.
There are a few concerns, though.
Will there be performance problems considering video split on different monitors on an extended desktop?
Will it be pixel predictable to size and stack divs so that images fit inside a physical monitor or monitor group?
Thank you all.
A great solution for this is Adobe AIR. You are already talking about HTML, might as well check that out.
The nice thing is that AIR provides facilities for kiosks. Check out this link:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex_kiosk.html
Just replace everything there that says Flex with HTML/Javascript. The platform functionality is available to both technologies.
As for stretching a browser or AIR app across multiple screens, I believe you would have to manually position the window yourself. I.e., if you maximize an app window on a multi-monitor setup, it expands to the size of the monitor only, not the entire viewable area. You likely will have to manually position/resize in Javascript.
As for using Chrome as a client, see this thread:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=12bde481a208c4ca&hl=en
It doesn't look like Chrome supports a kiosk mode.
Browser shouldn't be a problem at all. Just remember the architecture - you'll need a server somewhere and each kiosk will be a client. Just set up a port/url for your app and there you go. Chrome has some features that allow you to prevent users from exiting the app. I forget the specifics, I believe it involves incognito mode and something
Company I work for does something a lot like this. We make 'apps' that run on iPad and another touch screen device called MSI (btw - one of the advantages here is the freedom of using different client platforms), but not in the typical Objective-C way. Theres a server with a LAMP stack and the client uses the browser.
Will there be performance problems considering video split on different monitors on an extended desktop?
I think more than multiple monitors what you really have is multiple clients. This is interactive to some degree right?
Will it be pixel predictable to size and stack divs so that images fit inside a physical monitor or monitor group?
Yes. I don't really do artsy design and display details so I can't comment on specifics. But I don't think this is too hard - especially if all the clients are similar. Majority of this would be dictated by CSS.
EDIT - took a look a what we do on chrome. between running on start up, using kiosk mode and incognito (both can be runtime flags) and the regular F11 kind of full screen, you should be pretty much there
Will there be performance problems considering video split on different monitors on an extended desktop?
IMHO screen space does take a little toll on your video processing. You will need a relatively good video card to support such huge amount of displays. I am a user of dual screen on ATI Radeon HD 5750 (1GB), and I can do intense gaming on my main screen while read news and be on twitter on my other screen.
Will it be pixel predictable to size and stack divs so that images fit inside a physical monitor or monitor group?
DIVs can be easily styled and positioned using CSS. You can define the number of pixels for both width and height. And if you do your storyboarding and layout design, everything should fit in your window.
However the trouble for you is that I assume you're stretching the browser window across the 3x3 screen. I recommend you to instead have one browser window per display.
I've tried that Chrome can full screen on each display without exiting-full-screen-mode on the others.