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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	What with the number of people carrying browser-enabled phones nowadays, and their evolution into a more useable platform (rather than the humble beginnings of WAP-phones and their inadequate screens), one has to consider that a lot of people now are expecting to see 'full' web pages on their 'high-res' screens. Ignoring for the moment the fact that these 'high-res' screens don't even meet the original expectations of Windows 95 users, plenty of effort has gone into 'zooming' and 'smart layout' functionality to make them more useable. In practice, as each web builder has different ideas on what constitutes reasonable expectation, no two web sites appear to work well with the same settings on all these devices; some sites forcing one to play with layout/zoom settings until things are more easily readable. The iPhone has an excellent approach that allows zooming to specific elements... but when these elements don't necessarily fit the screen, you're forced either to scan constantly from left-to-right-to-left in order to read as with the text body aligned perfectly on screen, the font is reduced to merely a small cluster of pixels. What would work best for situations like these? Does one have to have knowledge of the various devices and their 'zooming' methods in order to make a site readable on these devices easily..? Does an inappropriately fixed width cause the zooming/panning issue with small device screens? Now that I am starting to use mobile browsers far more frequently, I'm discovering a wide range of problems with sites that otherwise look great at anything above 800x600, but become a garbled mess below that. Which way do you have to go to accomodate tiny screens? Loading...
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