I designed an app on a resolution of 640x960px which I am now converting into a working webapp for an iPhone 4S. As you may know, the iPhone 4s has got a resolution of 640x960px.
Why is it that when I use width=device-width in the meta viewport, which shouldn't downscale or upscale the design, the iphone uses a width of 320px instead of 640 pixels?
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
However when I use width=640 it forces the browser to use 640px as the width but that doesn't automatically change the width for other devices such as an iPad. This just doesn't make sense to me.
content="width=device-width"
will not scale up anything.It only changes the viewport's width. It seems the iPad is dumb in such cases as it thinks of width in device-width as 768px in landscape mode too.
In landscape mode setting a specific pixel value for iPad will scale it up 1.333.
Use this and couple it up with responsive layout techniques
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
Also, what you are doing is correct. Just add specific code for layout. Made my life much easier.
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I want my site's width to automatically fit on the iPhone portrait screen (testing on an iPhone 5). I currently have the width CSS set to 100% and am using this meta viewport tag:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; minimum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" />
This technique was recommended by this question: Website does not automatically fit to iphone screen
It doesn't work for me though. The site width is still way wider than the iPhone portrait screen.
How can I get the site width to automatically fit on the iPhone portrait screen?
Make sure the viewport is configured correctly:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">
Make sure you don't have content that is wider than the viewport.
For instance if you have an image that is wider than the viewport set the CSS to
max-width:100%;
I think you may just be off a little. This is what works for me.
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no,width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0" />
My site has a fixed layout with a size of 1090px.
When I use this meta tag:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1">
the page will load zoomed in. Not all the way though (roughly 300px in width are out of view).
Also, you can not zoom the page out far enough to see the whole thing.
Shouldn't the width=device-width solve that?
So I tried an initial-scale of 0.29, which worked fine for the iPhone. But when loading the site on an iPad, it would obviously be way too small.
How can I fix this?
UPDATE:
So I just figured, that the width seems to be defined by the height of my page.
Safari on the iPhone fits the height in the viewport and doesn't care about fitting the width, also won't let you zoom out to see the whole width. It seem like if the page would be higher, you could see more of the width.
The width is just fine in landscape.
If your design is not responsive, It is better to target particular device resolution like for 320 width I would go for <meta name="viewport" content="width=320">
I have also noticed that content set as device width tend to break on ios 4 safari. I am afraid it's not the problem of ios safari it's the non-responsive design that causing the problem.
Also if the design is not responsive, then using this combination is worst
user-scalable=no or maximum-scale=1 with initial-scale=1
playing with initial scale will not solve the problem for all the devices.
I have a horizontal site and I want the site to always be 100% in height when viewed on a mobile device. I have set the viewport meta tag to -
<meta name="viewport" content="height=device-height, user-scalable=no">
which works fine on both portrait and landscape mode, however when I rotate the phone from portrait to landscape mode the site scale bigger than 100%. Unless I re-load the page (refresh won't work).
I found this link which explained why it does that - http://filamentgroup.com/examples/iosScaleBug/
and followed the instruction there and changed the meta tag to
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no, maximum-scale=1.0">
This solved the orientation problem when switching from portrait to landscape mode but it doesn't scale the site to 100% height.
It's okay to disable the zoom functionality because I prefer to have zoom off.
Any suggestions to solve this problem?
Thanks
I know this is an old question but when trying to achieve what you are I tend to use the following code.
<meta name = "viewport" content = "user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, width=device-width"/>
<meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"/>
Hope that helps
I'm having trouble wrapping my head around sizing images and ui elements for my iphone app using phonegap (basically mobile website gone native app). Here are my PSD settings:
width: 640px
height: 960px
resolution: 326px
I'm creating two images, one at half resolution and the other at full. Then I'm using a plugin to recognize the retina display and replace all images with "*-2x". The trouble is that the images appear larger on my retina iphone and are blurry. I'm wondering if my viewport is messing things up as it zooms in on the screen to fit the app:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
I have never used PhoneGap, but to make HTML show images in Retina res what I do is link to a retina res image, say the image is 640x960 pixels, but in the HTML set the size properties to 320x480.
The reason for this, is iOS uses resolution independent "points" instead of "pixels" for layout.
I'm developing a mobile website for iPhone and Android browsers.
As I was playing around with an Iphone 4 and a HTC Desire I found out that the two devices react differently on orientation change. If I load the website in portrait mode and then rotate the device to horizontal mode, the Iphone zooms closer to the content using the same width (320px). With an Android device, if I rotate it seems that the viewport changes, so there isn't any zooming going on (width >320px), instead the websites gets wider.
My current viewport (I already tried setting a fixed width of 320px):
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0;" />
Now my question: Is there a way to make the Android Webkit browser "zoom in" like an iPhone on orientation change from protrait to horizontal?
Thank you very much in advance!
Andrew
This functionality is present on iPhone because of the way the viewport works. Here is how to disabled it on all devices and thus creating the same user experience.
If you set your viewport to this:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1.0," />
then it will prevent the iPhone from "re-zooming" back to device-width. This ALSO disables zoom entirely though. Don't have a better solution at this point.