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Joel Berry
4,208 PointsReally, where can you find a smartphone screen lower res than 480 px in landscape mode in 2014? Seems strangely low.
Not sure why we are setting a min-width to 480 px, that is lower than vga...
2 Answers
Luke Glazebrook
13,564 PointsHi Joel!
While not a lot of phone modern phone displays go to a resolution this low you must remember that some people don't often change phones and a lot of older phones certainly use a resolution similar to 480px.
Justin Giudici
9,536 PointsUse bootstrap
Joel Berry
4,208 PointsJoel Berry
4,208 PointsMaybe he meant to say 480 width for smartphones in portrait was at one time common, bec in the video we are adjusting the window to a portrait view when trying to replicate what the site will look like on a smartphone.
Out of 31 screen resolutions listed at http://bit.ly/MtdamL , only 2 are under 480 for landscape mode, QVGA and WQVGA, and there are only a very few old smartphone models listed.
My real question is how useful is it to use screen resolution to attempt to distinguish smartphones from tablets from laptop/desktop monitors?
Smartphones now boast resolutions of up to 2560×1440 at 515 ppi, and soon even 4K, and even less expensive and older models usually have a width even in portrait of over the 660 min the video sets as a break point to optimize for tablets.
The @media screen and min-width feature is very cool (I love these treehouse courses in general so far, so informative!) but there must be a more accurate way to query whether the device being used to view the website is a mobile device in portrait mode, a desktop in landscape mode, etc, I am guessing maybe by determining which operating system is being used.