Mobile web is here to stay…and guess what, it’s easy!

ready.mobi – You Can’t Handle The Truth!

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Filed under: Mobile Device and Browser Detection, Mobile Web Design, Mobile Web Development, Wordpress Mobile

We received the following comment from Jeff Miller on the ‘removing scrollbars‘ article.

Your site doesnt even show up on any mobile phone, other than maybe an iphone. But doing a test on your site it show up very bad on other phones which most of the world use. it only scores a 3/5 on ready.mobi and its very hard to navigate on phones. Obviously you are not the mobile web junkie but the wapple (wurfl rip off hosting solution) for iphone junkie.

Ouch. Oh well, there’s always one… The reply got kinda long but turned out to be quite a good read. So I thought it would be nice to post it as an article. Here it is: Read more

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Removing Problems with Scrollbars on Mobile Browsers

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Filed under: Mobile Device and Browser Detection, Mobile Internet, Mobile SEO, Mobile Web Coding Tutorials, Mobile Web Design, Mobile Websites

Scrollbars are a pain on web and they are even more of a pain on mobile.

If you’ve ever had to develop a website that does anything imaginative with it’s width then you will have encountered the inclusive / exclusive discrepancy amongst browsers. For example, should your page length exceed the vertical size of a browser window, a vertical scrollbar appears – trouble is some browsers feel the need to subtract the width of the scrollbar from the width of the page – causing horizontal scroll on the page. Read more

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