Mbp vs iPad

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Good morning

I use the full background action for the backgrounds on: http://www.ussniagara-sfi.org/

On the iMac or mbp it looks good.

On the ipad2 I am seeing the picture ending and a grey border around it. I addition it is not doing the full screen especially when scroll the page

Pease help
Thank you!
Julie

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This is a known issue, and I’m afraid I don’t know any way around it.
The iPad and the iPhone behave badly, but badly in different ways,
with respect to this layout technique. Strictly speaking, the
MobileSafari browser doesn’t have a notion of window size per se.
Because you can zoom in and out of the page, that’s a very slippery
notion anyway. All of these effects rely on asking the browser for the
dimensions of the window. That’s where this breaks down, and unless
there is another property that we could substitute for the window
dimensions, there’s no way to fix this. You may want to try another
layout technique, probably something using a real background image or
combination of background images and colors, and you will no doubt
find that there are knock-on benefits from that change, like faster
page loading, which will benefit all browsers.

Walter

On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Good morning

I use the full background action for the backgrounds on: http://www.ussniagara-sfi.org/

On the iMac or mbp it looks good.

On the ipad2 I am seeing the picture ending and a grey border around
it. I addition it is not doing the full screen especially when
scroll the page

Pease help
Thank you!
Julie

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Thank you Walter. I will explore it. The star trek groups want the pix as a full background and it’s not a tileble image.

J

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 8:04 AM, Walter Lee Davis email@hidden wrote:

This is a known issue, and I’m afraid I don’t know any way around it. The iPad and the iPhone behave badly, but badly in different ways, with respect to this layout technique. Strictly speaking, the MobileSafari browser doesn’t have a notion of window size per se. Because you can zoom in and out of the page, that’s a very slippery notion anyway. All of these effects rely on asking the browser for the dimensions of the window. That’s where this breaks down, and unless there is another property that we could substitute for the window dimensions, there’s no way to fix this. You may want to try another layout technique, probably something using a real background image or combination of background images and colors, and you will no doubt find that there are knock-on benefits from that change, like faster page loading, which will benefit all browsers.

Walter

On Apr 6, 2011, at 12:19 AM, Julie Maxwell Allen wrote:

Good morning

I use the full background action for the backgrounds on: http://www.ussniagara-sfi.org/

On the iMac or mbp it looks good.

On the ipad2 I am seeing the picture ending and a grey border around it. I addition it is not doing the full screen especially when scroll the page

Pease help
Thank you!
Julie

Sent from my iPad

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But surely they don’t want it distorted as in the above link?

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No they don’t. Any other suggestions oh great one?

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On Apr 6, 2011, at 5:18 PM, DeltaDave email@hidden wrote:

But surely they don’t want it distorted as in the above link?

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If you are going to use FB then at least use FB proportional

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I think you should consider iOS specific pages - if iOS is that important to the members.

To me the current layout doesn’t work on Pad or Phone - the nav menu is too wide for starters!

D

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