Ian, Yes, I agree. The width and height is of the maximum picture size. I'm going to use percentages in the CSS for the textual layout, but the images need to be the right size for the device, in particular the site header.
And then there is the question of the phone supporting CSS! I was just trying to figure out the phone capabilities first. 2009/7/20 Iain Wallace <[email protected]> > Trying to match the style/layout of a site to the expected resolution > of the device that you think is displaying it is going about it the > wrong way - this is why CSS has percentage widths for doing layouts. > > Or is the question more about what you can send back to the server in > order to choose an image size? > > If you want an example of something that does this quite well, visit > the iPhone/Android optimised interface for Google Reader using a user > agent switcher. This will load up images in atom feeds and then > instantly resize them in javascript to fit the page width. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Brian Butterworth<[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been looking at adapting some sites to work better on mobile > devices. > > I can do the stripping down everything to text and minimal graphics and > so > > on, that's the easy bit. > > Does anyone know of anything reliable that can tell me the width in > pixels > > of the device? > > I was hoping that Glow would cover this, but it does't. > > -- > > > > Brian Butterworth > > > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and > switchover > > advice, since 2002 > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
