Tag Archives: Mobile Design
The most popular mobile browsers
March 14, 2019, by James Kielty
A well thought-out mobile strategy needs to take into account many characteristics of mobile users’ behaviour. With some analysis of mobile traffic from websites powered by DeviceAtlas, we can shed some light on the most popular mobile browsers in the largest markets. An effective mobile strategy starts with traffic analytics The first step when creating... Read More
Meta Viewport Best Practice
February 1, 2019, by Luke Captain
The meta viewport tag is a html tag that can be used to set the width and scale of content. It’s immensely useful for getting sites to renderer properly on mobile devices, mostly due to the fact that mobile devices generally have smaller screens than developers are designing for (who designs websites to be 375px... Read More
The DeviceAtlas guide to detecting iPhones
January 3, 2019, by James Kielty
The latest DeviceAtlas whitepaper explains the difficulty around accurate device detection of iOS devices. In all Apple devices, the User-Agent string only indicates the hardware type, not the model. By parsing User Agents alone, all you’ll know is whether you’re dealing with an iPhone or an iPad. This leaves some useful properties outside your field... Read More
How to Inline images
November 6, 2018, by Luke Captain
Inlining images is useful for breaking up content and making an article more visually interesting, but when it comes to it, there’s more than one way to skin this cat. In this article, I’ll outline three ways to do it. Aligning with inline-block The first way you can inline images is simply by setting display:... Read More
Adding favicons in a multi-browser multi-platform world
March 20, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Favicons: they used to be so easy. A simple 16×16 pixel favicon.ico bitmap used to do the trick. It was like a punctuation mark at the end of a project; the web developer equivalent of finishing a sentence with an exclamation mark or a full stop. That’s how it used to be. But over the... Read More
