OT: html coding question - Thanks

[Keith Smith]

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On 2014-11-20 14:15, Eric Cope wrote:
> 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/ [1]
>> 
>> 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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