responsive design: weird layout display on small devices and Iphone - iphone

I have a weird problem, I hope somebody can help.
I have designed this responsive site and it works fine but on mobile phones it does a weird thing. Before the final site as it would be seen on a small screen it loads for a few milliseconds the site all messed up, with the sidebard above the main content, but afterwards it loads the right layout.
I wasn't worrying too much abuot this but later I realized that on iphones you could only see the messed up site, not the proper layout as it should be.
My media queries are like this:
<link href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (min-width:50px) and (max-width:479px)" href="css/screen-layout-small.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (min-width:480px) and (max-width:767px)" href="css/screen-layout-medium.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="only screen and (min-width:768px) and (max-width:959px)" href="css/screen-layout-large.css">
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Dosis:200,300,400' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=2">
Hope someone can help as I'm going a bit out of my mind here. Thanks!

I checked the site on my android phone now, i noticed this div( barritaloca) was not properly formatted in your media queries.
Its floating to the top page thereby causing the site to load abnormally.
You should correct that div and revert.
Meanwhile, post your css here for reveiew
Thanks

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OK, I fixed all my problems by specifying the following in the CSS
#media only screen and (max-device-width: 480px) {
#main { -webkit-text-size-adjust:100% }
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Why won't my iPhone tell the difference between 960px & 640px style sheets

I have these 2 rules:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (max-width:960px)" type="text/css" href="css/mobileStyles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (max-width:640px)" type="text/css" href="css/mobilePortraitStyles.css">
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For targeting only Retina Display
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Add this in the head of your HTML document:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/>
Write max-device-width instead of max-width
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (max-device-width:960px)" type="text/css" href="css/mobileStyles.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (max-device-width:640px)" type="text/css" href="css/mobilePortraitStyles.css">
Also, it's better if you define their orientation like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (orientation:portrait)" href="portrait.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" media="screen and (orientation:landscape)" href="landscape.css">

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I am looking at calling different CSS for desktop and iPad browsers.
For desktop, I am using
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and for iPad, I use
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When I say desktop browsers, I am referring to IE8 and above, FF4+, Safari 5+ on MAC
But for some reasons, the desktop CSS does not get applied in IE8.
Please suggest the best approach such that I can clearly separate desktop/iPad and also it would work on all desktop browsers..
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How to hide desktop css from iphone browser?

I have a web page for which I made two css files, one for desktop browser and another for iphone.
I do it something like this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/main.css" media="screen,projection,print" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/mobi.css" type="text/css" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 480px)" />
On a desktop it works fine, but on iphone I Have some strange behavior, it looks like it loads both files and rules conflict with each other. If I comment out second line (main.css) it works fine on iphone.
so how can I hide it?
thanks
I included WHOISSTAN's php function example from http://mobiforge.com:
function is_mobile(){
$regex_match="/(nokia|iphone|android|motorola|^mot\-|softbank|foma|docomo|kddi|up\.browser|up\.link|";
$regex_match.="htc|dopod|blazer|netfront|helio|hosin|huawei|novarra|CoolPad|webos|techfaith|palmsource|";
$regex_match.="blackberry|alcatel|amoi|ktouch|nexian|samsung|^sam\-|s[cg]h|^lge|ericsson|philips|sagem|wellcom|bunjalloo|maui|";
$regex_match.="symbian|smartphone|midp|wap|phone|windows ce|iemobile|^spice|^bird|^zte\-|longcos|pantech|gionee|^sie\-|portalmmm|";
$regex_match.="jig\s browser|hiptop|^ucweb|^benq|haier|^lct|opera\s*mobi|opera\*mini|320x320|240x320|176x220";
$regex_match.=")/i";
return isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE']) or isset($_SERVER['HTTP_PROFILE']) or preg_match($regex_match, strtolower($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']));
}
Then I added this within my <HEAD></HEAD> tags:
<?php
if(is_mobile()) {
?><link rel="stylesheet" href="mobi.css" type="text/css" media="handheld" /> <?php
} else {
?> <link rel="stylesheet" href="main.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /> <?php
} ?>
use mobile detection in php or another server side script so that the other css is not there at all. here is a place to get a good script
http://detectmobilebrowser.com/
the script needs to be modified a lil. it comes in a if statment so if you put it in a function you can return a true or false. Then you can use it like.
if(mobiDetect()){
<link href="mobiStyle.css" />
}else{
<link href="style.css" />
}
You should let mobi.css apply handheld styles on top of main.css. Also, I guess media should be handheld for mobi.css, and not a bunch of text like you have now.
Mobile WebKit applies stylesheets with media type of screen, because it’s meant to behave like a desktop browser with some UI optimisations for mobile, rather than as a mobile browser.
You might consider serving different HTML to iPhone-like browsers, get around it that way. I don’t think there’s any reliable HTML- or CSS-based way to hide CSS from Mobile WebKit.
Ok, I found a solution and it is actually quite simple, just need to use media querys. Something like this:
<link rel='stylesheet' media='screen and (max-width: 480px)' href='css/mobi.css' />
<link rel='stylesheet' media='screen and (min-width: 481px)' href='css/main.css' />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="true" />
We can change width depending on target device. It works fine on iphone (and most of other smartphones) and also works in all desktop browsers apart from our beloved IE:) to fix this issue just add:
<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" media="all" />
<![endif]-->