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IPhone page shrinks html, but Blackberry doesn't

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User742899572 posted

So I created a site optimized to be rendered in a mobile device. I set the Width Site is looking good on Blackberry of my <DIV> tags to be about 300px, for the most part, to account for the reduced screen size. However, the IPhone Safari browser renders this to the screen extremely small, and I can only assume that it's automatically reducing the size of the html accordingly to fit the device. Again, Blackberry does not do this.

Can anyone point me to a solution?

thanks

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 4:03 PM

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User742899572 posted

Here's the HTML in my Site.Master page:

<body bgcolor="White" style="left: 0px; top:0px; ;">
<div style="background-color: #FFFFFF; width: 300px; left: 0px; ;">

Thinking this may be the cause.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 4:13 PM
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User1943143334 posted

Hi,

You need to add a meta tag called "Viewport".

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width;initial-scale=1.0;maximum-scale=5.0;" />

Check the following links,

http://roopeshreddy.wordpress.com/2010/07/25/mobile-development-in-asp-net/

http://roopeshreddy.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/developing-web-applications-for-blackberry-mobiles-using-microsoft-asp-net/

Hope it helps u.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 10:24 PM
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User742899572 posted

Added this DTD, and it seemed to do the trick

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">

Do you think the Viewport is still needed?

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 10:28 PM
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User-333223682 posted

Hi,

IMO, it’s better to add Viewport with DTD. It’s better to use both codes. In many places, I saw both DTD and Viewport. I used it and also recommend it.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 4:10 AM
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User1943143334 posted

Hi,

Check the following link,

http://developer.apple.com/library/safari/#documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002051

Hope it helps u...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010 10:22 AM

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