On Feb 6, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote:
> Generally speaking you're better off with a design that automatically adapts
> to the viewport on which it's being displayed. While there's more than one
> reason for this, the overriding reason is that the same software (i.e. the
> same user ag
> There is only one drawback to using CSS media queries to alter the way a
> page is displayed on different resolutions, and that is that any media
> (i.e. background images, etc) referenced in a stylesheet is downloaded,
> regardless of if it is ever used.
Another one worth mentionning is that a
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 18:09 -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote:
> Mari Masuda wrote:
> [snip]
> > For a concrete example of responsive design in action, point your browser
> > to http://www.sasquatchfestival.com/ and then slowly make the window
> > wider/skinnier to see how the design adapts to differe
Mari Masuda wrote:
[snip]
For a concrete example of responsive design in action, point your browser to
http://www.sasquatchfestival.com/ and then slowly make the window
wider/skinnier to see how the design adapts to different viewport sizes.
Very nice... makes for an easy display to a wide r
Paul M Foster wrote:
[snip]
How about this: those of you with iPhones, Androids and the like, point
your phones at a page which reports $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] (like a
page which runs the phpinfo() function), and post what you get back from
that exercise and what device made the query. I'd li
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:01:45PM +, Stuart Dallas wrote:
> On 6 Feb 2012, at 05:58, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> > This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
> >
> > I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
>
> There are simulators available for most smartphones.
>
>
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 04:04:28PM -0500, Adam Richardson wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adam Richardson <[1]simples...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster
> <[2]pa...@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>
>This is sort of obliquely rela
Stuart Dallas wrote:
On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:12, Marc Guay wrote:
the way your site renders should be purely based upon the size of the display.
Although I mostly agree with this statement, it ignores the most
interesting aspects of mobile technology, such as being able to ask
the user for their
Ashley Sheridan wrote:
[snip]
Keeping a PHP angle to this, have you looked at using an up-to-date
browscap.ini file with PHP? Basically, you can use that to read in the
raw user agent string from the browser, and it then finds a matching
entry in the ini file and gives you back some values about
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 09:02:34PM +, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
[snip]
>
>
> Keeping a PHP angle to this, have you looked at using an up-to-date
> browscap.ini file with PHP? Basically, you can use that to read in the
> raw user agent string from the browser, and it then finds a matching
> ent
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:28:42PM -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> >This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
> >
> >I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
> >
> >1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
> >their own
On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:12, Marc Guay wrote:
>> the way your site renders should be purely based upon the size of the
>> display.
>
> Although I mostly agree with this statement, it ignores the most
> interesting aspects of mobile technology, such as being able to ask
> the user for their GPS locat
On Feb 6, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Stuart Dallas wrote:
[snip]
> Generally speaking you're better off with a design that automatically adapts
> to the viewport on which it's being displayed.
[snip]
For a concrete example of responsive design in action, point your browser to
http://www.sasquatchfest
> the way your site renders should be purely based upon the size of the display.
Although I mostly agree with this statement, it ignores the most
interesting aspects of mobile technology, such as being able to ask
the user for their GPS location and deliver content accordingly. I
worked on some r
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Adam Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
>> This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
>>
>> I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
>>
>> 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or d
On 6 Feb 2012, at 05:58, Paul M Foster wrote:
> This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
>
> I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
There are simulators available for most smartphones.
> 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
> thei
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 14:28 -0600, Donovan Brooke wrote:
> Paul M Foster wrote:
> > This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
> >
> > I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
> >
> > 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
> > their own st
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Paul M Foster wrote:
> This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
>
> I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
>
> 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
> their own stripped down versions of browsers?
>
B
Paul M Foster wrote:
This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
their own stripped down versions of browsers?
2) When a browser broadcasts its header telli
> 1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
> their own stripped down versions of browsers?
Different browsers, some of which are worse than IE (see Blackberry).
> 2) When a browser broadcasts its header telling the server what kind of
> browser is involved, do the
Nice article!!
You should read up on responsive web design.
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/ should get you
started. HTH!=
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On Feb 5, 2012, at 9:58 PM, Paul M Foster wrote:
[snip]
> 3) Bonus question: Is there a preferred method amongst coders to
> determine what type of environment is being browsed from, so as to serve
> up the proper type of page (desktop or smart phone version of a
> webpage)?
[snip]
You should
This is sort of obliquely related to PHP.
I don't have a smart phone, but I need to know a couple of things:
1) Do smart phones use the same browsers as the desktop, or do they have
their own stripped down versions of browsers?
2) When a browser broadcasts its header telling the server what kind
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