While this viewoprt stuff is the Hot Topic, please be aware of the following Safari oddity:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;"> is perfectly correct, while <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; "> is an error in all versions of Safari (mobile and desktop). The reported error is Viewport argument "" not recognized. Content ignored. The trailing space (between the ';' and the '"') should be ignored whitespace and should never cause a parsing error. I wonder how many other places get this wrong. If you do not have the error console enabled you might never figure out why your page just went TRULY bizarre. Good day to all. Brian ________________________________ From: RobG <[email protected]> To: iPhoneWebDev <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, October 9, 2010 1:02:57 AM Subject: Re: HTML5 character encoding etc. On Oct 9, 11:53 am, Jesse <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have designed your web-app for the iPhone screen then you may want to > prevent zooming. I've already said I can't think of a good reason to do that, but accept that someone might. > This is a perfectly valid use of the meta-tags. > This is especially relevant if you are packaging your webpage into a native > app container like phonegap. > > Rob, Do you expect your contact list on the iPhone to zoom too? Yes, why not? I wish I could, because sometimes in poor light or for certain character combinations I find it difficult to read and rather than get out reading glasses, it would be so nice to just zoom in a little. I can zoom e-mail (a non-web page HTML document). Why do you want to stop me zooming contacts? One thing I like with iPone e-mail is that when I rotate to landscape, it zooms a little by default. I would love contacts to do that too. > Just because it is a webpage, does not mean it is a 'webpage', html is a > simple way to define the UI for an application as well. Just because you think it doesn't look as cool when zoomed doesn't mean I don't want to do it. It's the information that counts. If I'm prevented from easily accessing information because zooming has been deliberately disabled, I form a very low opinion of whoever designed or developed the UI and I will not use it if there is any alternative. For example, I have a GPS application that crams lots of information on the screen so most is in a small font and difficult to read quickly when doing something else (like sailing or bike riding). I'd love to zoom so that only the speed is displayed and it fills the entire screen. But I can't. Why not? Will it break the application? Will the speed be incorrect? Of course not. The designer chose to cram stuff on the screen and use a small, difficult to read font, then disable zooming (or not enable it) so I can't read it easily. That's just plain stupid. I can use some other application that displays only the speed, but then I don't get all the goodies I paid for with the GPS application (like tracks, waypoints, etc.). So for the sake of allowing zooming, a basic function that comes for free with iPhone, I don't have a suitable GPS application. PS. I ended up buying a bespoke GPS device that displays just speed and records tracks, and leave the iPhone at home. -- Rob -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
