Blog - Tag: css

This is the first in a series of posts that will attempt to address building mobile widgets that will scale properly between multiple devices. We will look at how we can deal with multiple screen resolutions, varying screen PPI (pixel per inch) densities, as well as gracefully switching between portrait and landscape modes.

This article is going to build on the concepts that were introduced in the “How to really cope with varying screen sizes and pixel resolutions in Vodafone Widgets”. Here we will actually build a sample widget that scales dynamically.

This post is going to set the stage ...

Vodafone launches Mobile Clicks 2010, an international contest to find the best mobile internet startups. After last year’s success in the Netherlands and United Kingdom, this year's event will also be open to startups from Portugal. The best entrants from each country in the competition will compete for a total prize fund of 150,000 Euros! Finalists from each country will go to the PICNIC event in Amsterdam, September 24th, where the winner and runner up will be selected.

Registration for this contest will start on July 27th, 2010 and end at midnight on August 22nd, 2010. Find ...

The sizing of text and graphical elements on different displays is a fairly complex problem in Web development. It is different to what you simulate when you drag your browser window to different sizes – because it is more about the pixel's physical size. A working solution to this is built into the Vodafone Widget Manager and it's only based on standards: CSS, CSS Media Queries and JavaScript.

Pixel-Density

Displays have two obvious characteristics: The sheer physical size and the number of pixels they are made of, often called "resolution". However these two are actually combined into a third ...