For my current website, I tested various techniques so that my
website renders properly on a phone and a large desktop monitor.
Most smart phones have a landscape resolution of at least 1024
pixels, most newer phones are much higher. I found that 950
pixel fixed centered width for a website page works on
everything. A phone turned landscape can read 12 point common
fonts at full width zoom. I find that using a fixed width
instead of an adaptive width is better for phones. Especially
when viewing the same website on a large desktop monitor. With
the context centered, the website is not too wide which can be
hard to read on a large screen, but fits onto a phone screen nicely.
Another thing I found about phones with using fixed pages and
fixed width text boxes versus dynamic width pages. Tapping the
text zooms to the width of a text box. Tapping on a dynamic
width box had mixed results as the phone operating system has to
guess a zoom factor, which often resulted in over zooming
requiring horizontal scrolling to read.
I split the screen into vertical fourths. Navigation, notes, and
such in the left quadrant, text boxes and other content in the
other three quadrants. Following more along the lines of the
current style of the sqlite website, the right most quadrant
column for stuff such as the common links box with the page
content in the first 3 quadrant columns. I think a fixed width
instead of dynamic width works better with phones and other
small devices.
Newspapers use 4-6 columns on a page instead of stretching a
line all the way across the page. It is easier for the eyes to
track from line to line. I find wide width of the sqlite pages
hard to read on my desktop monitors. Although I can shrink the
width of the browser, I am usually working on other things when
opening the page which need wider widths of the browser.
People who mostly use phones for browsing the web are not using
devices with a paltry 320x480 screen. scaling for a 950 width
would work better.
Fixed width content boxes seem to work better for phones as it
gives better clues to the phone how to zoom. Tapping any text
box will zoom to the width of that text box. Dynamic width boxes
do not have those kind of clues. I laid out my entire website
using the four quadrant vertical columns and fixed width text
boxes, which seems to work well on various phones I tried, along
with large desktop monitors. You can see how it works here>
https://nousrandom.net/index.html
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Scott Doctor
sc...@scottdoctor.com
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On 9/5/2016 13:55, Richard Hipp wrote:
Most of the world views the internet on their phone now, I am told,
and websites are suppose to be "responsive", meaning that they
reformat themselves to be attractive and useful for the majority who
view them through a 320x480 pixel soda-straw. In an effort to conform
to this trend, I have made some changes to the *draft* SQLite website
(http://sqlite.org/draft) Your feedback on these changes is
appreciated. Please be sure to try out the new design both on a
narrow-screen phone and on a traditional desktop browser. The goal is
to provide a more mobile-friendly website without reducing the
information content available to desktop users.
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