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 _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig