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An introduction to meta viewport and @viewport
Support for the viewport meta tag in Opera’s mobile products has been around for quite some time — in Opera Mobile 11, we have made our viewport implementation more robust, added support for new mechanisms to deal with different screen densities, and included an implementation of our own @viewport rule proposal. So, what better time than now to give you an introduction to the various viewport related mechanisms you can use to optimize your site for mobile.( Read the article )
Andreas Bovens - Group Leader Developer Relations, Opera Software
Great forward looking article. Weird how only Opera seems to be focussing on crucial areas like viewport, pixel-density and form handling while the rest of the industry is hell-bent on building some kind of Javascript orgasmatron!
PS. Any chance of Opera mobile for Bada?
PS. Any chance of Opera mobile for Bada?
OK - so I updated to Opera Mobile 11 today and found to my horror that web pages I had authored were being re-arranged in a most alarming way by the new auto zoom function... much gnashing of teeth - until...
Reality Bites! I find this excellent article on the new Viewport metatags and it fair just blew my mind! OK so it turns out my scripting wasn't quite as tight as it might have been - but in no time at all had done some necessary tidy ups incorporating the new metatags and everything is sweet.
The viewtags are a developers dream, in particular, the target-density device dpi tag as I like to use CSS etc to re-arrange elements to suit portrait or landscape mode and/or the available viewport size rather than have the poor hapless user constantly having to zoom in and out.
I am sure in a very short space of time other developers will come to realise just how powerful these tags are - and yet so simple to implement.
Fantastic work peeps you are all to be much congratulated on developing such an excellent product.
Other browser developers sit up and take note!
Reality Bites! I find this excellent article on the new Viewport metatags and it fair just blew my mind! OK so it turns out my scripting wasn't quite as tight as it might have been - but in no time at all had done some necessary tidy ups incorporating the new metatags and everything is sweet.
The viewtags are a developers dream, in particular, the target-density device dpi tag as I like to use CSS etc to re-arrange elements to suit portrait or landscape mode and/or the available viewport size rather than have the poor hapless user constantly having to zoom in and out.
I am sure in a very short space of time other developers will come to realise just how powerful these tags are - and yet so simple to implement.
Fantastic work peeps you are all to be much congratulated on developing such an excellent product.
Other browser developers sit up and take note!
Originally posted by Muzzlehatch:
Great forward looking article. Weird how only Opera seems to be focussing on crucial areas like viewport, pixel-density and form handling while the rest of the industry is hell-bent on building some kind of Javascript orgasmatron!
either that, or meta tag orgasmatron ;-)
I am glad we have started doing this functionality in CSS - it certainly makes more sense there, than HTML.
Chris Mills
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com
Originally posted by Muzzlehatch:
PS. Any chance of Opera mobile for Bada?
I've asked , and it looks like there are currently no plans to support the Bada platform with Op Mobile - sorry about that. It looks like you can definitely get Mini 6 working on it (http://guilleml.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/opera-mini-6-tuned-for-samsung-bada/).
Chris Mills
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com
Developer Relations Manager
Editor, dev.opera.com and labs.opera.com