OT: html coding question - Thanks

[Eric Cope]

Bootstrap handles it well, but you still have to implement it properly
(think Portrait vs landscape, phone vs. Tablet). Its very difficult to do
it properly...

Eric

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Michael Torres <matorres124 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you are using PHP as your server side code, this is a good class that
> provides that functionality that I need to detect info about different
> platforms....
>
>
> http://mobiledetect.net/
>
> Mike
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Fries <kevin at fries-biro.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Be very careful with this "feature".  I can not count the number of sites
>> where they lost my business because it was not done well.  Some of these
>> sites will see "Android" or "iOS" and just assume its a phone.  Then I hit
>> it on my 10.2" tablet, and it looks stupid.  Often, these sites are "auto
>> detecting" and don't just default, so there is no way to ask for the
>> regular site.  When done well, its nice when the site is smart enough to
>> offer a good default and also offer to not filter and deliver the regular
>> HTML page.  Also, make sure that if you do offer mobile, and you have a
>> link to deliver the full page instead, that this option sticks as you move
>> throughout the site.  I have one utility pay site that f's up when I go to
>> it with the tablet, but offers the "pc" page.  Click on it, and it will fix
>> the page you are on... click a link, and you are back to the "mobile"
>> version... click on the "pc" link again, and it takes you back the the main
>> page.  If this was a business I had an option to not do business with (its
>> our local utility and I am stuck with them), I wouldn't.  So as I said, be
>> careful and test, test, test
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Eric and Nathan!
>>>
>>> -----------
>>> > There are many frameworks which do what you want, namely
>>> > bootstrap or Foundation. I think ultimately what you want
>>> > is css @media queries. Do some digging on that and search
>>> > for detecting media type or screen size and displaying
>>> > a specific css for that device.
>>>
>>> -----------
>>> > Joe asked:
>>> >> Is there a way to set up an html page so that it will be
>>> >> displayed at one size on a mobile device, but then make all
>>> >> of the multiple small images that make up the html page scaled
>>> >> down to a different (much smaller) size on a desktop computer?
>>>
>>>
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