I have created a responsive site that looks good down to 1000px and screens smaller than that are redirected to separate mobile site. I intentionally want ipads to view the main site. When you load the site on the Ipad in landscape mode it is perfect but when turned it it too zoomed in. It there a way using meta tags and scale to force scale to say .75 when turned?
I have tried looking around and can make the site load zoomed out if first loaded in portrait but have not been able to force it zoom out on the turn.
Thanks for any help!
I'd give this link a shot. https://stackoverflow.com/a/6379407/1011998 Essentially, with a bit of HTML meta tags and a snippet of JavaScript, you should be well on your way to elegant scaling.
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Briefly explaining this, I have a Chat App that works well on a desktop view but when we go into mobile it seems that the device simply mimics the size of the desktop screen (ie: on my Oneplus 6 the <html> tag is around 4000x2000px). I'm quite new to HTML mobile scaling so forgive me if the wording for this isn't to par with what's expected.
Continuing, on my desktop if I manually change Chrome's window size my webpage scales perfectly while on my mobile device it's huge as said in the previous line. Would using the #media tag in css help specifically for this? If so, how?
One last thing, if I zoom in manually on my mobile it obviously looks perfect as it's meant to fit the new tall aspect ratios. Which is ultimately what I wish to do, just need to keep the website scaled perfectly like on the second picture (picture B).Image B
I'm making a prototype sight currently that is static (as in when the screen is resized smaller such as 480 pixels the sight does not responsively adjust its elements ). I actually don't want the sight to be responsive I want it to behave as apple.com does. Apples site is a large zoomed out overview of the site allowing the user to zoom in on what he/she wishes to. Whenever my sight is loaded on my iphone it is zoomed in to a tip corner of the site. When I apply zoom:.5 to the css it zooms out just as much as i would like it to in IE and chrome but does not in Firefox. Obviously that's a major problem being firefox is a very popular browser and i am having difficulties finding an alternative. If any one could offer any amount of alternatives (even using javascript) it would be much appreciated.
If I understand you correctly, you need to set the viewport meta.
Add the following to the head section of your site:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/>
This will set the initial zoom to fit the entire page, while allowing users to zoom as they please.
this is quite easy...
just do all your code in old fashioned pixel measurements
and nothing will resize and it wont be responsive at all
Why does iOS scale images up? I am building a site and want it to be mobile friendly, when I look at it on iOS my pixel-based images are getting scaled up for some reason.
Shouldn't the browser keep the images the right size? I have been testing it mostly in chrome using Dev Tools and setting it up to emulate iphone 4 and the images don't scale at all, it displays them as they are supposed to be.
I took a couple screen shots and the iphone width its taking is 640px, but my media query is as follows:
#media screen and (max-device-width: 479px)
What am I doing wrong? I can't find a solution to this. I need the pixel font images to stay pixely. Same for my splash screen. Screen shots available if you need....
You probably haven't been seeing the issue because your emulator isn't retina display, and therefore your images aren't being scaled, but your device is probably an iPhone 4 or later, and therefore has retina display, which assumes it needs to scale images unless directed otherwise.
Regarding devices with retina display, image resolution works in the browser similarly as it does on the device. If you want crisp images, you need to specify a separate image for the retina display. This stack overflow post has a few suggestions for implementing it: Apple retina support for images in HTML
I am a complete novice when it comes to website design, but have the task of designing a website for an academic conference. I wanted to design a functional site to which I understood the code behind it. I have managed to do so, but am now having problems with viewing it on a smartphone. When I have checked the website on online simulators such as brick and mobile is seems to work fine. However, when colleagues of mine with smartphones try looking at it, the main content area will not scroll. Does anyone know of a way to resolve this. The url to the website is:
Conference Website
Edit: The problem appears to be on android phones. If you zoom in a tiny bit you can then scroll alright, and if you move to a portrait view rather than a landscape view it is fine, but it will not scroll on a landscape view on an android.
You might want tot try adding viewport meta to your header, ensuring every device sees your site at the optimal width (this eliminates the user having to zoom in on most mobile devices).
You can find some good information for this in the following article: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/mobifying/
There are some zooming issues with the website on a Samsung Galaxy S2. This has mostly to do with your menu, which is set to 21%.
Furthermore you're setting height on a lot of elements to 100%. You might want to look into that as well.
I have the following jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/KfPOQ/
using a web browser it is fine however when on the ebay app on iphone or ipad i have to scroll right to see the full page how do I eliminate this issue?
You need to have the content of the page fit within your viewport (or screen) dimensions for the given media type. You can have different stylesheets based on the media type in a link/stylesheet tag. Say, for the iphone, use media="handheld" and try to keep the content within around 600px, or whatever looks good on your mobile device.
Here is another resource from w3c.