On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:48:45 -0400, Andre Roberge writes: > >On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Christian Mascher < > >christian.masc...@gmx.de> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I went there in a recent chrome on a laptop with a fairly small screen > and > >>> there are some rendering issues that make some of the controls > unusable. > >>> > >>> > >> I noticed the same with Nexus 7 (android) and firefox. On the desktop > Ctrl > >> + - usually makes things smaller and thus fit onto the screen (esp. > editor > >> right next to the world, so the controls below the world are visible), > but > >> on the android tablet that didn't help. > >> > >> These tablets are just to small for all the information and even firefox > >> is different compared to its desktop version. > > > > > >>From the beginning, my thinking was that anyone interested in doing some > >programming was going to use either a deskop or laptop with proper > >keyboard, etc., and thus a reasonably sized screen. > > > >Should I review this basic hypothesis? If so, does anyone have an idea as > >to what minimum screen size I should be aiming to support? I'm not ever > >planning to target tiny screens for smartphones and the like ... but if > >only relatively small adjustements are needed to support "typical" > tablets, > >I could look into it. > > > >André > > Children all over Sweden are getting ipads, ruggardized from the school > districts. They are 240 x 170 mm, and apple has done a very good job of > convincing education officials that this is where the 'computer literacy' > money should be spent. Some schools are bucking the trend and using > Android > tablets instead. They are typically '10 inch' screen but some '7 inch > screens' as well are being used. The android market is fragmented, so what > a 10-inch screen really is, width and height-wise varies, as long as 10 > inches > is on the diagonal, that is what they will call it. > > And the current trend in cellphones is to grow them like crazy, so the > flagship models of a great many popular brands now support 6.5 inch > screens. > (Indeed, it is a bit of a chore to find a very fast phone with a smaller > screen. Since I already own a 7-inch android tablet, I would like things > much better if my phone could just stay a phone, and go back to the battery > length times we had before we had smartphones ....) But I disgress. > > At any rate, for use around here ipad support would be required, and if you > got things to work with a 7-inch screen a whole lot of other people would > be happy. > > But that's just here ... > > Laura > Thanks for the feedback Laura. I guess I should have been a bit more explicit: what matters really is the screen resolution in order to determine how much space I have ... but, unless there is an explicit request, I probably will not tinker (much) with the design. (I just removed a bit of extra vertical space but more could be done - except that, with different browsers rendering css differently, it's a bit pointless for me to try to squeeze things more tightly together on the hope that it would work for some target device which I can't test.) André
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