Comments on: iPhone Optimization Script

By: Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:05:19 +0000

This is not a good idea, I think with a different screen size it will all start to go wrong

By: MezZzeR

MezZzeR — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:44:49 +0000

EDIT: My code was dismissed on my last comment, so, adding to that, in your meta tag you can add ‘user-scalable=no’ and it’ll disable pinching/double tapping for zooming.

By: MezZzeR

MezZzeR — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:43:19 +0000

You can disable zooming via: , which would ultimately disable double tapping/pinching for zoom functionality.

If you read up on the API at http://developer.apple.com, there’s a load of neat stuff there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:32:56 +0000

Good find, it’s small touches like these that make a site stand out amidst the crowd.

By: Dai

Dai — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:34:50 +0000

I have been developing a page with this sort of issue in mind the site has 2 columns 1 is for the main content and the second has reference information, to stop the user from getting lost I have used thick or images that span the 2 columns and as the others have commented the user can simply double tap on the bar to return to the correct page width.

By: digitalIchi

digitalIchi — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:30:48 +0000

Actually, double clicking doesn’t work on all site. It really depends on the page layout, go to valleywag.com, doesn’t work. Even this page if I double click in the qoute is a pain.

Over engineered? Probably. iPhone supporting a meta tag that takes a querystring would be better.

Also you can this approach to animate the view port.

By: Andrew Clarke

Andrew Clarke — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:57:38 +0000

I don’t think this guy knows about the double-tap. This is some serious over-engineering.

By: Chris Phillips

Chris Phillips — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:48:03 +0000

so what happens when Apple release another iPhone that has different screen size and/or browser scaling behavior? IMO it might be better to switch the nav layout and/or page css if the user’s screen size falls below a certain threshold. We spend alot of time thinking about progressive enhancement for browsers. – Maybe in the future we consider screen size as part of progressive enhancement too.

By: An

An — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:45:20 +0000

Nice, but where will it end. Will you at a script for any new browser/device? This would be a nice feature for a device bookmarking feature, not only to save the url but also the screen position and scale.

By: coob

coob — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:09:37 +0000

Neat, but resizing and repositioning to a column isn’t really a chore, just a matter of double tapping, no?

By: sekostar

sekostar — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:05:04 +0000

Good thinking. Well done