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    • Fabian Robok
    • Posted on Mon 2 Jul 2012 03:54 PM

    Great to see you pick up on this one. Since I'm restricted to the meager resolution of 320 x 480 px on my (overrated, from the very beginning) Galaxy Ace, I do appreciate every page that scales down well.

    There is however another, much more basic, aspect to this topic: Mobile devices are not the only ones with limited screen estate. I'm currently typing this on my Netbook. It's sort of a "high-end" Netbook, since it boasts a full 1366x768 px resolution (Wow!). But to this very day, people continue to buy 10" Netbooks with no more than 1024x600 px available. I don't understand why, I never did, but it's a fact.

    Much would be won, if webmasters (is that still a valid nound in 2012?) would stop to use fixed width designs or to make assumptions about the "typical" size of a user's screen, based on worthless statistics. "min-width" and "max-width" have been around for ages. Luckily the only reason to not use them, IE6, is dead now. Plain dead (especially on those devices, that suffer from the problem). Finally ...

    Responsive Web Design? Yes, please. But no need to restrict the approach to smart phones.

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