I have a smartphone with Android 11 and use the following CSS code on a website
body{
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}
I tried different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Brave) but the font isn't shown in Arial but some other sans-serif font.
While Arial is said to be "one of the safest web fonts, and it is available on all major operating systems." it seems not to be available on my Android device (I also checked on a different device, wasn't available either).
Here also a screenshot where the "t" (like in "sit") in the example shows clearly that Arial isn't used.
How comes Arial is not available on Android?
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Specifically, when testing my site on a Samsung Galaxy SIII I'm seeing the styles defined for the desktop.
How do you get the phone to use the mobile styles (with a 320px width in mind) or to utilize 'hide-for-small' class etc?
Currently, on that phone (and I figure retina display devices too) you'll not see .hide-for-small or global css being applied, only media queries for larger (768px and above) viewports.
Does anyone have experience making high DPI devices, i.e: (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) work with Foundation4?
Have you remembered to include the Viewport meta tag? The S3's viewport is 360x604, so if you're seeing styles for media queries greater than 360 on your portrait view, chances are you have your viewport misconfigured. I'd encourage the following viewport tag and #viewport directive (in your CSS):
<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0">
#viewport {
zoom: 1;
}
Also take a look at this related question on the viewport meta tag on the S3.
I have converted my website to android compatibility with using of CSS3 Media Queries(I just changed CSS only). My android device dimensions are 1280x 600. Its working fine in android devices.
But when I turned my desktop to 1280 resolution the design is changed (like how i wrote for android device). But it shouldn't come like that.
Only for devices i have used the css below
#media only screen and (max-device-width:1280px){
}
What is the mistake i have done?
That query affects every device with a max with of 1280px, not only mobile.
In iphone 4 the virtual CSS resolution is 1/4 of it's physical: 480-320.
Does android browser (the one that comes with the OS and called "browser"), say in the most common devices that have 800-480 or 854-480 resolution, has a virtual resolution the CSS is scaled to?
There are MANY android browsers. More than 10. They are extremely different. I don't think they have anything in common except standard technologies as HTML, javascript, css, active components and so on.
I'm currently working on a mobile version of a website which works great in the default browsers like Firefox & Chrome. Base is a fluid layout with a media query for a max width of 440px (#media screen and (max-width: 440px)to target portrait mode.
Font sizes are changing in the default browsers together with some other settings like smaller images and divs etc. However when I test the site on my HTC Android phone with the default browser it only shows the max width 440 style instead of the normal style which is based on a width of 480px.
What could be the problem for this behaviour? The mobile version can be found on httpp://www.seeyouzoeningouda.nl/m
Haven't posted the CSS because I really don't know which part of the code to show you. The css is based on the default HTMl5 boilerplate template (www.html5boilerplate.com)
What mobile devices have u used for testing ? If they are samsung galaxy s3 or apple iphone 4 then their device resolution has been doubled and hence this might be the cause for media queries not working.
So for I-phone 4 try to double the max-width from 480px to 960px and for samsung galaxy s3 if u double the max-width from 360px to 720px while writing the media query then it might work perfectly fine.
eg.
#media handheld, screen and (max-width: 960px)
#media handheld, screen and (max-width: 720px)
I think this might help you to target portrait mode.
Mobile device are sometimes targeted by #media handheld. Try using #media all instead of screen.
I am working on a web application which is run on iPhone and various Android phones. I have used iUI framework so far. iUI was designed for iPhone 3 and uses pixels in CSS for font-size, line-height etc. But the result is unusable on a newer Samsung I5500 with high pixel density (240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches = 143dpi). All the elements are too small. This can be partly compensated in browser settings > zoom > close, but I do not like making users change their browser settings.
My goal is, that every link and every button can be used comfortably by touching it. For that I would like to ensure a minimal physical size of the element. Luckily the CSS 2.1 specification provides a way for that: min-height: 20mm or min-height: 0.8in. Unluckily every phone I have ignores that declaration. On iPhone 3GS the element is 11mm in size, on Samsung I5500 (Andorid 2.1) is 10mm, on HTC Wildfire with low res display (Android 2.2) it is 14mm in size. Looks like WebKit browser assumes some low resolution like 96dpi rendering the elements hardly readable and barely clickable on high resolution mobile phone displays.
This blog post at sencha provides some solution approaches an recommends setting all the sizes for buttons, links, list items in em and shifting the size for body once by some sort of browser sniffing.
They also mention CSS3 media queries but tell, that it does not currently work:
#media screen and (min-resolution: 160dpi) {
body {
font-size: 114%;
}
}
For Android
<meta name="viewport" content="target-densitydpi=low-dpi" />
seems to help. It enlarges the page on devices with high-dpi more than on devices
with low dpi. But the physical size of elements is still different. See also Android WebView.
The Android DisplayMetrics documentation with its density vs. scaledDensity brings more fuzziness than clarification.
So the best combination I found so far for iPhone and Android is iUI plus following declaration in HTML head:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;target-densitydpi=low-dpi;"/>
Is there a modern, elegant way to set the font-size and button width and height for a wide range of mobile devices?
Or which workaround do you use?
I think the answer for you is the use of the EM unit instead of the pixel unit.
http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/css2em.htm
It is a proportionnal type of unit. So that you are not specifying the size of your font and buttons as a fix number but as a multiplicator to the default font for that device.
It's webmaster's best practice for accessibility anyway and why most framework are evil !! :D