I'm in the process of building a support page for my pre application.
I'm having a problem where the content on the page is very small, so the user has to manually zoom in to read it.
I've made the page so that there is nothing very wide or tall, but for some reason everything is very "zoomed out" when you first navigate there on the Pre.
I've noticed that sites like wikipedia have versions that are perfectly optimized for the Pre. How can I make my pages start out "full-sized" the way wikipedia does?
Update:
The extremely simple page that I am currently testing with.
On the above page I have tried setting the width for every element to both 310px and to 100%, the result is always the same.
I figure I can accomplish this by giving everything a static width and then making everything use a very big font size. I'm just guessing that there is a "better way", i.e. some way to let the pre browser know that it doesn't need to start zoomed out to the size of a "normal" web page (it seems that the default zoom is about 1024px wide, even though the actual rez is 320px).
I found out the proper way to do this on the webOSDev forums.
The following should be in the header:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale = 1.0"/>
This has the advantage that when the user turns the device into landscape mode, everything scales appropriately, without any styling gymnastics.
Posting a URL of a problem page would be a big help here.
In general, to show nicely on smartphones, the design of the page has to be "fluid" (taking 100% of the width in percent - not specified in pixels) to use the most space in differing screen resolutions. The minimal width supported by the design should be about 300 pixels, to fit without zooming on 320x480 screens.
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I have a non responsive web page that has centered content 700px width 700px height. I'm having trouble getting mobile devices to display the content (I'm testing with Chrome on Android, but I'm guessing the same issue occurs with other devices as well). I've tried various things with viewport meta and css media screen, but Chrome keeps zooming in on some portion of the page instead of displaying all of the content. This is surprising to me, because when I visit websites which are clearly not optimized for mobile devices, my usual experience is that I see the entire page "zoomed out" and I can then zoom in. I was expecting my page to also work like this, and no matter what I do, I can't get my page to work like that.
Additionally: bonus points if you know a way to "auto-zoom" so that the centered content is fully displayed without displaying empty space. Like a viewport meta tag that defines both minimum-width and minimum-height simultaneously.
Did you set <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">?
More info on the viewport meta tag
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
I have a responsive website that I think looks best when it's 500px or larger, so I set the min-width to 500px.
However, I'm testing it on a 320px phone and pages have horizontal scroll, forcing me to zoom out if I want everything on the screen.
Is this a device issue? Or is there some code I can use to make my site shrink by default? (instead of having to zoom out each time I navigate to a new page)
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=.6">
Then just adjust scale to fit what you need
I used bootstrap in my pages, it save you this hassle, try it it is very helpful in many ways.
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We are looking at an existing (non-responsive) site whose width is 1230 or so. So on mobile devices its content, even compressed as it is, loses about 10% off to the right.
That's bad, as their phone number (plenty large enough to see, even compressed on a mobile) is right aligned and we lose some of the digits unless the viewer scrolls across.
As a quick stop-gap remedy I figured we could set:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=1235">
But that's ignored on the phone I'm testing with.
I've checked that the phone responds to a much lower viewport width - if I set it to 300 or something than I get zoomed in content (top left hand corner), as you'd expect. Just it doesn't respond to a viewport set beyond 1024.
Remember, the viewport is an effective screen size for mobile devices. The idea is that since your website isn't responsive, it doesn't do any good. The problem lies in your CSS rather.
But yes, you can set the viewport higher than 1024. Generally, the viewport should be slightly wider than your web content to make sure you have a little bit of margin next to your text for readability.
Have a look at this Introduction to Viewports.
Don't forget to use this along with media queries to achieve responsiveness. I usually use this and it works for me across a range of mobile devices. You don't have to hardcode content width though.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
But as I mentioned earlier, the problem lies with your CSS positioning and the viewport tag isn't the solution. You can probably do a media query to reduce size of the phone number.
This question already has answers here:
Android viewport setting "user-scalable=no" breaks width / zoom level of viewport
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Closed 8 years ago.
I'm having some problems getting my website to scale correctly for mobile devices.
We have a site that's designed to be a minimum width of 640px, maximum of whatever. I have the meta tag currently:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width;minimum-scale=0.5,maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=1;" />
Now - The part i'm confused about is that if I use "initial-scale=1.0", obviously the site will scale 1:1, and it will look crappy on an iphone 3Gs (will only see half the site). Now, on an Iphone 4, (having a 640px wide resolution) it will be scaled properly at 640px if I use "initial-scale=1.0".
Alternately, if the graphics are 480px, 3Gs would require scale=.667 and iOS 4 would require 1.3, correct?
So how do you get the site to fit perfectly edge to edge? Can the browser detect the device width and then set the scale accordingly?? There are lots of different device widths out there... android, older iphones, blackberry's etc.
Getting quite frusterated :( Feel like i'm missing something important that I should already know.
Edit It seems that the 'initial-scale' meta tag should be scaling the site relative to the viewport, then using width=device-width to set the actual viewport size.
The problem I seem to be having is that the viewport isn't scaling to fit the device, it's staying at 640px no matter what tag I use. What am I missing here???
I think the main issue with the original message is that semi-colons don't appear to work on iPhone 4+. It only works with commas as separators (or only the device-width setting). Other browsers seem to be more tolerant.
The following works reliably for me:
<meta name="viewport"
content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,maximum-scale=1" />
You'll also want to disable the body and document from scrolling horizontally:
body, html
{
overflow-x: hidden;
}
Good link for more info on Mozilla Site:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mobile/Viewport_meta_tag
"width" is to tell the browser how wide your website is at 100% zoom. if you have designed your website to be fluid, you could specify "device-width" here, and the browser won't need to use any zooming, as your layout is designed to fit any viewport width.
"initial-scale" is for overriding the default behaviour of some devices to zoom in or out on your website so that the website width (which you specified above) matches the screen width. setting this to 1 basically says "don't zoom for this, use scroll bars if my website is too wide for the screen, and leave blank space at the sides if it's too narrow". if you do want your website to fill the screen width exactly, don't use initial-scale.
Ok, i've figured it out... essentially.
Because my design is actually 2x the size of the viewport (sort of), the key is just to use "initial scale = 0.5". It works correctly on both devices (3Gs and 4), and more or less correctly on android devices, etc.
Kind of tricky, and it seems like there should be a better way to do this, but for the time being, it works.
Thanks all who provided input.
I believe that the answer is that you want to tell the web browser to always scale the site to 640 pixels. I would even turn off the ability for users to scale the site so that stray drags don't re-size everything.
Try this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=640; user-scalable=no;" />