On Wednesday, 11 July 2018 19:17:25 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 17:14:21 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
> > It's worse than that; I've found that every browser that I've tried
> > on every device that I have access to exhibits different behaviours
> > with this code:
Something that I also found, even before I installed the captive portal, was
that colours
are rendered differently on different platforms. At the time that I developed
the original
website, the public website was themed in blue, so I chose that colour for
buttons, etc. In
order to provide the maximum readability, I chose yellow for the button text.
Unfortunately that text came out pale blue on Android phones, which made it
unreadable
outdoors ;-(
> Given enough time to detect the captive portal, Windows 7 pops up a
> balloon from the taskbar suggesting that "Additional log on
> information may be required", which opens a browser when clicked.
Have you installed nodogsplash? Just wondering how you know.
> Captive portals are a bit of a hack, and largely rely on the
> assumption that, if someone wants to use an internet connection, they
> will open a web browser and try to access a website on the internet.
Fortunately we do need to use a browser; I'd just prefer that it wasn't the
crippled one that
comes up at signin on Android 7.0 (and presumably earlier) phones.
> Which leads me to wonder; could the overflow you're seeing have to do
> with the global font size settings (for menus, etc) on the Android
> device you are using? If this is set larger than default, then perhaps
> the portal sign-in browser respects that and renders everything
> larger, while other browsers ignore this setting.
I'm sure that this is a factor.
> If you are more concerned about whether the buttons fit on the screen
> than whether they respect the user's font size preference, it might
> make more sense to specify the font size in viewport width units (vw).
> That is a design decision more than a technical one. Personally I'd
> try a smaller em size first. (It sounds like that's what you've done.)
I wasn't aware of this feature; I'll look into it.
Thanks for your help.
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