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Vernon Fowler

» CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool's Gold Cloud Four Blog - 0 views

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  • The photographs come to life when you hover over them.
  • There are some good uses of CSS media queries. If you’re building a discrete web application where you have more control and can make sure that the desktop web isn’t bloated, it can make sense.
  • Two methods that appear to work are: Setting the parent of an element with a background image to display:none.3 Using media query min-width declaration to only specify a minimum browser width for the desktop image and a max-width for the mobile image does result in only the mobile image being downloaded in Mobile Safari.5 These two options mean that using CSS media queries isn’t completely impossible, but using the parent element to hide images and changing existing desktop CSS to add min-width declarations are significant changes to existing CSS. It isn’t going to be as simple as adding a CSS media query for mobile and calling your job done.
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  • If you send the same HTML and Javascript to the mobile user that you do for the desktop user, even if you format it to fit their screen, you’re likely missing opportunities to provide a great mobile experience based on the capabilities of the device and the context of the mobile user.
  • But the core mechanism used to accomplish them, CSS media queries, isn’t up to the task when it comes to mobile development.
  • In both cases, it showed the image files are downloaded despite the fact that the media query has set them to display:none. This means that the iPhone downloads an extra 172K for photos that the user will never see.
  • More desktop web sites that take advantage of fluid grids and CSS media queries to optimize for the multiple sizes of desktop screens. Media queries still make sense for desktop designs.
  • Also, Ros Hodgekiss from Campaign Monitor wrote an exceptional article on how you can use media queries in html email to provide a mobile optimized layout. This is perhaps the ideal use case because when you send html email, you have no choice but to send a single html document regardless of what device the recipient will be using.
  • Does your desktop web home page use geolocation lookups? Probably not. Should your mobile site home page? Quite possibly.
  • Ignoring the Mobile Context The promise of CSS media queries is that you can take your existing desktop web site html and add this additional presentation layer for mobile. Doing so ignores the fact that a mobile user may have very different needs than a desktop user.
Fabio Caballero

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shared by Fabio Caballero on 04 May 09 - Cached
  • Fabio Caballero on 04 May 09
     
    A blog about mobile interaction design
Vernon Fowler

Stop using the viewport meta tag (until you know how to use it) - htmlboy - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 09 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Vernon Fowler on 09 Oct 12
     
    "If you are not coding a responsive site, just don't use any meta viewport. If you are coding a responsive website, all you need to write is "
Vernon Fowler

Make your website an iPhone web application | Luscarpa Blog - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 18 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Specifying a Startup Image On iPhone OS, similar to native applications, you can specify a startup image that is displayed while your web application/website launches. By default, this image is a screenshot of the web application with the page that the user has visited the last time. If you want customize it, add a link element to the webpage, like this: <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="/startup.png">Copy this code to the clipboardView plain text1<link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href="/startup.png">
  • All these tips only works for web pages that have been saved to the home screens and opened from there, if you access to your website using safari you don’t have this customizations. Remember also that any new link will be open in new browser tab so you lost these settings.
  • if you click on a post link you will be redirect to safari
Vernon Fowler

RIP Adobe Flash on Android - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 18 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Some core Flash technologies will live on in other Adobe products on mobile devices, such as AIR. Some developers use AIR to create media-driven mobile apps, mostly games. Flash as a ubiquitous video standard on the mobile Web will cease to exist, while AIR will live on as a rendering engine in applications built with Adobe.
  • Vernon Fowler on 18 Aug 12
     
    "Some core Flash technologies will live on in other Adobe products on mobile devices, such as AIR. Some developers use AIR to create media-driven mobile apps, mostly games. Flash as a ubiquitous video standard on the mobile Web will cease to exist, while AIR will live on as a rendering engine in applications built with Adobe."
Vernon Fowler

This is the new 320 and Up | Stuff & Nonsense - 0 views

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shared by Vernon Fowler on 31 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • What’s in the new ‘320 and Up’? The new ‘320 and Up’ is about what I’ve taken out, rather than what I put in. I’ve tried to make things simpler.
  • Back then we were just getting started with responsive web design and many sites, including mine, and frameworks and boilerplates like HTML5 Boilerplate, structured their CSS3 Media Queries from the desktop down, rather than for small screens up. (Oh how we laughed when we realised our mistake.) So to put things right, I wrote ‘320 and Up’.
inkoniq

Apple iOS8 HealthKit: App trends to watch out for - 0 views

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shared by inkoniq on 04 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • inkoniq on 04 Jun 14
     
    Future for HealthKit is great if Apple can pull it off. Letting different apps and devices talk to each other essentially makes your iPhone center of your lifestyle.
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