http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/tags/mobile/atom/default.aspx notSetFri, 21 Nov 2008 20:23:39 GMTOxite notSet<p>I've been <a href="http://www.duncanmackenzie.net/blog/looking-for-good-examples-of-mobile-interfaces/default.aspx">fiddling around with mobile interfaces</a> for both my personal site and for the various sites I work on (<a href="http://on10.net">http://on10.net</a>, <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com">http://channel9.msdn.com</a>, amongst others) and I noticed the use of &lt;meta name="viewport" content... /&gt; on some other mobile sites. A quick search and I found <a href="http://furbo.org/2007/07/24/one-line-of-code/">a great discussion of the viewport meta tag</a> on furbo.org (<a href="http://developer.apple.com/iphone/devcenter/designingcontent.html">the apple developer site provides the same info in a more reference format</a>). Turns out this simple meta tag helps Mobile Safari determine how best to scale your site for the smaller screen of the iPhone (relative to a desktop that is). I don't have an iPhone, or an <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JO3Y1O?tag=duncanmackenz-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=B000JO3Y1O&amp;adid=0VY7PDQCATWF6KPFCC65&amp;">iPod touch</a> for that matter (I gather the experience would be similar... if you don't want to get a full blown cell account I'd suggest the 'touch' for testing purposes), although I found <a href="http://iphonetester.com/">a great testing site for the iPhone</a> (best viewed with Safari 3.0 on your desktop). </p>http://duncanmackenzie.net/blog/the-viewport-meta-tag-and-the-iphone/default.aspxThu, 03 Jan 2008 08:55:00 GMTDuncan Mackenzie